The Doctors' Dinner PartyA witty satire of the medical profession The Doctors Dinner Party is an eleventh century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town is invited to dinner with a group of older medical men, whose conversation reveals their incompetence. Written by the accomplished physician Ibn Buln, the work satirizes the hypocrisy of quack doctors while displaying Ibn Bulns own deep technical knowledge of medical