They assumed the symptoms of the patients and it destroyed their ability to render medical necessities.
That is, they were selling legalized drugs for drug houses and so forth and so on, because they couldn’t practice medicine due to the fact that they had too much sympathy for their patients. And he was telling me about previous doctors, some that had been classmates of his, who were drug salesmen. “Well, then I got a thought that I had engendered and encountered for the first time in Cincinnati when I was going to medical school.
“The first time I dropped bombs on a target over there, … I said to myself, ‘People are getting killed down there that don’t have any business getting killed.
In the 1989 interview, Tibbets also spoke of a lesson he learned in Cincinnati about doing his job:
