orthodox medicine

n. 1. that version of medical theory and practice officially sanctioned by some ecclesiastical authority, such as the AMA, in order to maximize profits for the medical priesthood and to help identify heretics, denounce them as quacks, and drive them out of business. 2. We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. [George Bernard Shaw]





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