Abstract
To the Editor: —In his address as retiring president of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. C. Jeff Miller (Medical Men and Their Lay Critics,Surg., Gynec. & Obst.54:391 [Feb.] 1932) quoted Kipling's statement that doctors always have been and always will be exposed to the contempt of the gifted amateur, the gentleman who knows by intuition everything that has taken them years to learn. Dr. Miller further charges that it has perhaps been easier for our traducers to gain a hearing than has been for our defenders. In theLadies' Home Journalfor November, 1933, these two statements are abundantly confirmed. Paul de Kruif's article Why Should They Go On Dying? is a veritable storehouse of misinformation and vilification of the medical profession, as any doctor can see by securing a copy of the magazine and reading for himself. Briefly, de Kruif had just
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