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Given the state of medicine at the time, how (assuming it was possible) would you discern a competent doctor from a con-man or even just an incompetent doctor in medieval Europe? Were there cases where a doctor was charge with a version of malpractice or negligence?

by /u/currentmadman in /r/AskHistorians

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