Why Do Doctors Make The Best Criminals

Background: “When Doctor Make Mistakes” is the essay from Gawande’s book Complications. It is mainly about the mistakes that doctor make.

For my people and my culture, doctor is one of the best career choices one can think of. If one can get into a Medical School, especially outside the country, he/she is considered as the resident of the highest caste of the society in the future. What can we say; doctors are ones with high intelligence, higher budgets, and high dedication in sciences. They are heroes in the white lab coats that perform surgeries, and save lives. Those with high intelligence, but low budgets; or high budgets, but low intelligence and/or dedications, are not good enough to be the heroes for the sick people. They can still be part of the hospital system, not as the hero, but the hero’s helpers.

Gawande in this article applies the surgeon precision to explain to us the reasons behind the uncertainty and the mess of medical care. In addition to this, Gawande provides us with some of the interventions which need to be applied and which will bring relief. This chapter therefore should be read by all students and health professionals. This is because Gawande believes that we can reduce the mistakes within the field of medicine and

I think Holmes came to the conclusion that "doctor's make the greatest criminals" because Holmes even said himself, "When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge." I agree to Holmes' statement because doctors know of all sorts of medications and poisons that could be used to put harm onto someone. Doctors are perfectionists, they make it their business to be careful with even the simplest of steps in practice. Doctors would be "great" because they would take that attention to detail with them and be careful and persistent in the actions, and are trusted in the community.

H.H. Holmes was a great example to future serial killers. An “expert” like this must have a knowledge of how to murder people and get away with it while, at the same time, get something out of it. Although he was a horrible person and admitted to murdering 27 people and was hung for his crimes, H.H. Holmes was a great example to future serial killers with his fake credibility, dishonest sources of income, manipulative personality, and ability to cover up crimes.

Gawande’s purpose in Better: A Surgeon’s notes on Performance is to show that in the medical field, following protocols is not always what is best for the patients.

1) According to the World Health Organization (WHO), how could at least half a million deaths due to surgical error be prevented every year?

Dr. Holmes was an infamous con artist and serial killer. Born as Herman Mudgett, Dr. Holmes, experimented on pets and other common forest animals. He tortured these animals, dissecting them while they were still alive, practicing and increasing his knowledge on how long a living animal could survive with the excruciating pain deriving from Henry’s torture. As an adult, Henry documented in his autobiography that while visiting his doctor as a child, older boys would shove human display skeletons in his way, terrifying him. Therapists and the

I believe Larson included this information about Holmes to continue the suspense that has been previously built upon Holmes’s character. Personally, without already knowing that Holmes is a serial killer I do not think I would be able to guess, due to Larson’s way of characterizing and explaining how “amazing” Holmes is. In previous chapters, Holmes was described as extremely handsome, trustworthy, and he had women constantly falling at his feet. Holmes has the characteristics of a celebrity, and by including pieces of information about his love for babies and animals Larson builds the idea that Holmes is not one to be suspected of being a serial killer. I believe that Myrta’s opinion and view of Holmes is very believable, due to the fact that

H.H. Holmes’ pathological problems started at the age of eight with him starting to lie. His lies and scams grew along with his age and by the age of 25 he changed his name to H.H. Holmes to elude accusations from those he lied to and scammed. He continued to con and manipulate using his trusting looks and medical degree swindling thousands of dollars from insurance companies by taking cadavers from medical school, taking insurance policies out on them and telling the insurance that he was a family member to collect the money. Holmes was such a pathological liar and has given so many accounts about the number of people he has killed that to this day the true number is unknown. He always needed stimulation and a proneness to boredom, and was conning and very manipulative. He had numerous wives and had promiscuous sexual behavior by having several mistresses.

In the story, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, Helen Stoner comes to Holmes about the sudden death of her sister Julia Stoner. Holmes starts to suspect Dr. Gimesby Roylott, the girls stepfather, has something to do with Julia's death. Later in the story Holmes concluded that Dr. Gimesby Roylott was the person behind Julia's death. He says, "Doctors make the best criminals." He also said, "When a doctor goes wrong he is the first of criminals. He has the knowledge and the nerve." It makes sense to say doctors make the best criminals because they know all the different types of medications and posions to kill someone discretely. And if it came to weapons, doctors know all the areas of the human body that would cause death quickly and quietly.

Doctors have always been thought of as the saviors of mankind, the healers, and caretakers of our utter existence. Even ancient civilizations revered the medicine men as having special power to protect life. The trust of a physician is sacred. This is why the practice of medicine by the

Sherlock Holmes is an incredibly intelligent man. He has seen uncountable mysterious criminal cases and been the only man capable of solving it. I believe this gives him the experience necessary to declare who would make the best criminal. Holmes stated that "Doctors make the best criminals" at the conclusion of The Adventure of Speckled Band By Arthur Conan Doyle. It is entirely realistic that Holmes can make this conclusive statement because he is a well known detective whom has a lot of experience with criminals.

Holmes may have thoughts and things on why doctors can be the best criminals it true. Doctors know all sorts of medication and poisons that could be used to kill somebody. If they are using a knife or weapon, they would know the vital areas of the human body and doctors are notoriously perfectionist.

Holmes came to the conclusion that doctors make the greatest criminals. Some people might not understand why Holmes came to this conclusion. Most people probably think that he is crazy! Doctors are there to make people feel better and to cure them so they no longer have to suffer. Although, why would a doctor that helps people get better and find a cure so they no longer have to suffer make the best criminals?