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Some Musings on the Physician-God Syndrome
Arthur F. Schiff, MD
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(3):193-194.
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AN OLD and tired joke tells about a physician who dies and ascends to heaven. Seeing the long line of people standing before St Peter's desk, located just outside the pearly gates of heaven, he reasons that as a scientist and a man of medicine who has aided humanity his entire life, he should not have to wait in line with all the others. He hurries to the head of the line and identifies himself to St Peter as a physician. Without even looking up from the big ledger, the saint informs him that being a physician or even a Supreme Court justice does not give him special privileges at the gates of heaven and that he will just have to take his place at the end of the line and await his turn like the rest of the mortals from Earth. Disgruntled, the physician stomps to the back of
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Author Affiliations
Mercy Hospital Miami, Fla
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