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标题：Brain Surgeon, the Autobiography of William Sharpe
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作者：Nathan S. Kline
期刊名称：Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
印刷版ISSN：0025-7338
出版年度：1953
卷号：41
期号：2
页码：185-187
出版社：Medical Library Association
摘要：Dr. Sharpe in his autobiography has introduced a new variant of "Potter's principle," i.e., how to get one up on your neighbors without exactly cheating. He has demonstrated a remarkable natural facility since his approach isobviously not marred by the studied effort to which conscious imitators and even Potter, himself the great master, at times succumbs. The opening gambit requires, of course, that one be born either of high estate and "work down" to the level of mere humanity or else "struggle up" from the slums. Television has ruined the former and Horatio Alger the latter, so that the author very wisely dispenses with this in a sentence. This is followed by another obvious but indispensable ploy-training under a series of professors who epitomize the most undesirable characteristics of Simon Legree, Sgt. Quirt, and Torquemado: to receive medical training from teachers whose behavior even remotely resembles that of the upper primates leaves one at almost as much of a disadvantage as to be born in a bourgeois family where becoming a doctor is not regarded as a social crime.