EC Orthopaedics

Playwright Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” (1882) concerns a doctor’s scientific discovery that will benefit the citizenry. Instead, the good doctor receives political and financial pushback causing him and his wife to lose everything. His story is compared to a modern-day whistleblower who suffers the same pushback and consequences. Times may change but people do not. Both are victims of the Tall Poppy Syndrome (TPS) [1-8].

 Keywords: Tall Poppy Syndrome; Tyranny of the Majority Institutional Resistance; Courage Conflict

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