They can be compared to apathetic opportunists who specialize in the trafficking and exploitation of dejected souls with fragile minds. Doctors Bradshaw and Holmes had played their roles perfectly. Septimus believed that there was nothing "physically" wrong with him, which compounded his frustration with himself and with life in general. For these disinterested doctors, apathy was their personal recipe; for life and their sustenance were rooted in sickness and death. The process of death provided them with material means (finance). Life was always in full bloom with awareness of the natural (and sometimes accelerated) processes of death in their daily lives. In the novel, doctors no longer served as guardians of the population's health, but were instead angels of death as far as Clarissa was concerned. His opinion of Dr. William Bradshaw is very low and he believes his "cures" are Septimus