Self-interest and reputation would make systematic medical murder self-defeating

Evidence

Firstly, there is no doctor whatsoever who does not treasure his own personal interest and reputation more than the ruin of others. For this reason, he will seek to cure his patients, upon which his reputation depends and therefore also his personal interest. The only exceptions will be one or two individual cases of [judeoconverso] doctors who hope not to be detected [as a result of their high patient death rates]. There can be no doubt that a doctor at whose hands so many patients died would lose his reputation. Secondly, even if some were to succeed in their malevolent intent, then within two or three months everyone would flee from such a mortiferous doctor, even if they only attributed his patient death rates to his ignorance or bad luck. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 424 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Secret-identity fears, not medicine itself, drove suspicions of medical murder; Being murderous without restraint is inherently self-destructive; Even an Enlightenment skeptic reasoned that rational self-interest refutes medical murder conspiracies. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 424 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Even an Enlightenment skeptic reasoned that rational self-interest refutes medical murder conspiracies. #corroborates (0.95) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 424