This thread started with doctor pols, and there were a few of those among the founding fathers–Benjamin Rush, James McHenry. I believe McHenry did not practice. Rush did, unhappily for his patients during the yellow fever epidemics of the 1790s, who almost all died under his ministrations.

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Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.
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