Judge, 1889-03-09 · page 18 of 20
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This is a satirical story (not a cartoon) mocking medical competition and professional jealousy in the late 19th/early 20th century. **The Setup:** An old country physician plans to beat up a younger doctor who has recently moved into his community. **The Satire:** The older doctor is angry because the young newcomer *cured* his patient—a man the established physician had declared hopeless. The punchline of the satire is that the old doctor considers this *unethical and professionally ruinous*. He views the young doctor's success as ingratitude and an insult to his reputation, not as a positive medical outcome. **What it means:** Judge is satirizing the closed-minded resistance of established professionals to competition and innovation. The story ridicules physicians more interested in protecting their monopoly and status than in actually healing patients. The old doctor's rage at being upstaged—rather than joy at his patient surviving—exposes the mercenary and ego-driven nature of some practitioners. This reflects real tension in early American medicine between older practitioners and trained newcomers.
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