The Great Pretenders

I had a strange thought today. Well, more an unusual juxtaposition of ideas.

Both actors and doctors were once despised by society. Both, within the last half-century or so, have risen to a place of prominence in that same society.

And both are pretenders of sorts. Actors pretend to be other people and doctors pretend to know how the body works.

I'm left with wondering if there is any correlation between the two, now well-respected, professions.

EH Rydberg