They can be compared to apathetic opportunists who specialize in the trafficking and exploitation of despondent and fragile-minded souls. Doctors Bradshaw and Holmes had played their roles perfectly. Septimus believed that nothing was "physically" wrong with him, which deepened his frustration with himself and with life in general. For these selfless doctors, apathy was their personal prescription; for life and their livelihood were based on sickness and disappearance. The process of death provided them with material means (finance). Life was still 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, rather they were angels of death for Clarissa. Her opinion of Dr. William Bradshaw is very low and she finds his "care" for Septimus