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Major burns: incidence, treatment and outcomes in Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal people in Western Australia
Author(s) -
Wood Fiona M,
Fowler Bess V,
McAullay Daniel,
Jones Jocelyn R
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb06621.x
Subject(s) - officer , medicine , history , gerontology , archaeology
US physician Martin Duke argues that it served as a badge of protection.* This idea also surfaced in Sinclair Lewis’s novel Arrowsmith: ‘The Doctor, and the Doctor alone, was safe by night in the slum called “the Arbor”. His black bag was a pass. Policemen saluted him, prostitutes bowed to him without mockery, saloon-keepers called out “Evenin’ Doc” and hold-up men stood back in doorways to let him pass.’