The demise of professional courtesies: cui bono?

The past is another country: they do things differently there.

Correspondence: parnold@ozemail.com.au

Acknowledgements:

I thank Drs John Allsop, Victor Bear, Richard Gordon, Celina Rappaport and Ben Taaffe for their valuable comments on earlier drafts of this article.

Competing interests:

None identified.

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