"Some of my best friends have been doctors, and excellent people they were, most knowledgeable about the minds of men, whom they see when the poets do not. But doctors are taught their laws, and they keep those laws if it kills you. Some of them here in Sicily come asking how a wanderer like me has kept such good health to past fourscore. I tell them this or that. It would be uncivil to say that whenever in my travels I get a touch of fever, I go quietly to bed and send for the local wise-woman."

Pretty good advice today, too.

I'd like to see Robin's point of view get a wide hearing. I'm afraid he's trying to paddle against a powerful current the other direction, though.