It's Hardly Credible - Medical Readers and Literary Plague

It's Hardly Credible Reading Camus' The Plague, a physician wonders why the hero doesn't prescribe sulfa drugs. If there's such a thing as literary malpractice, she asks, is it the questionable prescribing of a fictional character or the heavy-footed perseverations of a too-literal reader?

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Reading Camus' The Plague, a physician finds it hard to believe why the protagonist does not prescribe sulfa drugs. She questions whether it is the questionable prescribing of a fictional character or the reader's too-literal interpretation that may amount to literary malpractice.