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Illustration by Bernard A. Bryson
accompanying Herrymon Maurer, "The M.D.'s Are Off Their Pedestal,"
Fortune, February 1954.

Some assessments suggested patients’ dissatisfaction with their experience at the physician’s office. This drawing and its caption headed an early 1950s article in which the author claimed that "It isn't just because some doctors are accused of being fast-money men. It's because most doctors practice a new and better brand of medicine that leaves many people cold while it makes them well."