Shaw’s preface to his 1906 play, and far more famous than the play: that it is madness to pay a surgeon a fee for cutting off your leg, that professions are conspiracies against the laity, that doctors are as poor and as human as the rest of us — with vivisection and vaccination taken up along the way.
Shaw at his most provoking, on doctors and what we ask of them. Download the free EPUB.