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Updated: May 28, 2025

The physician then acquires a role of being considered vital to the survival of others and thus obtains great status, prestige, authority, and financial remuneration. Perhaps because the sick person is seen to have been victimized, and it is logically impossible to consider a victimizer as anything but something evil, the physician's cure is often violent, confrontational.

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