Kesher Talk

A nice Jewish doctah. We've only been doing it for a coupla thousand years.

"Five hundred years ago, 50% of the doctors in Europe were Jews," Heynick said at a recent reading of "Jews and Medicine," at a Brooklyn Barnes & Noble. At the time, Jews made up less than 1% of the total population of Europe. But from the lowest rung of society to the court physicians, Jews were deeply embedded in the medical profession. Medicine was a profession that the Jew — wandering from land to land — could take with him. "Fast forward 500 years: 36 Nobel Prize winners in medicine were Jews — and [the Jews] are not even approaching 1% of the world population."

posted by Judith @ 8/18/2003 11:00:44 PM