Wilford Spradlin - interned at McGill in the late 1950s when Cameron was the psychiatry department's most eminent, albeit idiotic, figure. Has co-authored a whole series of risible New Age books on "reverential phenomena."
Randolph Canterbury - Spradlin Professor of Psychiatry, tells idiotic and offensive anecdotes to an auditorium full of medical school students while participating in the wholesale violation of medical ethics including the deliberate withholding of medical diagnosis (strabismus) and thus care. His actions constituted ritualistic reenactment of the abuses and overweening physician arrogance displayed in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. He thus flagrantly dishonors the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., himself the victim of egregious surveillance and mistreatment.
Given the pace at which UVa and its medical school get around to acknowledging egregious violations of medical ethics, I would expect some form of token apology in about 70 years.
In general, most physicians are very capable people. Except for psychiatrists who traditionally seemed required to come up with some crackpot personal theory.
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