What if the physician and co-conspirator, working together...
Actually I think you'll find that physicians are as divided about your topic as society is, meaning you must be the "co-conspirator" if you want to speak about "the physician" that way.
But this is a thread that started about stupid politicians and morphed into a subcontext about Chiari malformation and prostate PSA titres. Time for a new thread, methinks...
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
