ABSTRACT
Regardless of the disease or condition, one universal truism appears to be that physicians vary in the way they practice medicine. This is not a new observation. In The Doctor's Dilemma, written in 1906, George Bernard Shaw wrote:
During the first great epidemic of influenza towards the end of the 19th century, a London evening paper sent round a journalist-patient to all great consultants of the day, and published their advice and prescriptions, a proceeding passionately denounced by the medical papers as a breech of confidence of these eminent physicians. The case was the same, but the prescriptions were different, and so was the advice. Now a doctor cannot think his own treatment right and at the same time think his colleague right in prescribing a different treatment when the patient is the same.
