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                Date of Publication: October 01, 1996
            
                     
        
             
            
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        Doctors and the plague
        
        
        
        
            Abstract:
             The behaviour of doctors during the pneumonic plague in Surat in September-October 1994 was a blot on the medical profession. It raises several ethical issues related to their responsibility towards society and their profession. This essay briefly describes how the doctors of the city responded to the epidemic
         
        
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