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Why do we call doctors "quacks"?

Question

Why do we call doctors “quacks” and psychiatrists “shrinks”?
Len, Hackney

Answer

** Definitive **
Name: Paul, Hertford
Qualification: Heard it on Discovery Channel
Answer: During the Plague, the doctors wore masks which looked like a duck’s bill because they thought they it protected them from germs – hence calling them quacks. For psychiatrists, it comes from head shrinking.

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