Because your excerpt starts with "To accomplish the twin goals of artificially elevated incomes and worship by patients." The thoroughly footnote supporting th

Because your excerpt starts with "To accomplish the twin goals of artificially elevated incomes and worship by patients." The thoroughly footnote supporting the latter part of that sentence is supposedly comes from something written by The Massachusetts Medical Society, but actually comes from a speech written by a single physician over half a century before the rise of the AMA's Council on Medical Education. And it does not say that mankind "should be 'looked upon by the mass of mankind with a veneration almost superstitious.', as is stated. It doesn't even get the year of publication of the quote right. Packing an article with footnotes doesn't mean a damn thing. Other footnotes include such thorough scholarship as this one time an unnamed Chemistry instructor told me off the record that white men have a harder time getting into med school with mediocre scores than black women do, and editorialized quotes from sources where neither a long enough quote, or enough information on the source is provided to lookup the full quote.