Frank G. Slaughter Critical Essay | Critical Essay by Margaret Wallace

Critical Essay by Margaret Wallace

["That None Should Die"] is an unusual novel about medicine in the United States. It is a story no layman could have told—that no layman, for that matter, would have been justified in trying to tell. It is a story that no doctor of all those who have written books in recent years has had the courage and bluntness to attempt. Dr. Frank G. Slaughter, a young Florida physician, is sharply critical of medicine as it is now practiced. He believes that the present policies of organized medicine are heading the profession, and the public which depends upon it, for trouble. Exactly what kind of trouble, his novel will explain in convincing detail.

Dr. Slaughter can afford to be critical. It is clear in every line of his book that he knows what he is talking about…. Dr. Slaughter manifestly loves his profession. He believes it, whatever its faults, to...
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