Medicine show: Stage Left's A Man of the People tells the story of a real-life quack, but could use a tighter focus. | Kelly Kleiman 👇
It’s hard to write a play whose hero is the American Medical Association , even as embodied by crusading Dr. Morris Fishbein and his equally earnest sidekick . The AMA’s erstwhile role as the scourge of quack medicine has been eclipsed by its more recent history of opposing every effort to expand access to health care.
So playwright Dolores Díaz has that obstacle to overcome. In her favor is our hunger to see a con man get his comeuppance, and especially to see him fail politically. Enter John Romulus Brinkley , an historical figure who got rich and famous claiming to cure impotence by implanting goat testicles.
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