How doctors can be more dangerous than Russian spies
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7th October 2020
After listening to my most recent podcast on toxicology, an anaesthetist friend reflected that his job essentially involves poisoning people with potent toxins.
He could have made a fine living as a Royal Poisoner in the Middle Ages, except for his soft spot for administering antidotes towards the end of the operation.
Scheming royals traditionally considered that sort of thing a character flaw.
The ancients liked their poisons irreversible. Anyone who accidentally woke up in the recovery room was given a pillow, but not in the modern