ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Doctors' Commons

Doctors' Commons is a fancy place where doctors and lawyers used to work together a long time ago, like when your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents were alive. Doctors’ Commons is kind of like a clubhouse where big, important doctors and lawyers would go to talk about their jobs, drink tea, and eat cake together.

The doctors and lawyers would go to Doctors’ Commons to study and learn more about their professions. They would have rooms to work in and a big library with books that they could read to learn more. They would also have meetings where they could teach and learn from each other.

Doctors' Commons was mostly famous because it is where the doctors would go to train to be medical experts in court. This means they would learn how to talk to the judge and jury and explain technical things about medicine in a way that everyone could understand. They would also learn how to prove that someone was sick or injured because of something that happened, like an accident, and it wasn't just their fault.

Doctors' Commons doesn't exist anymore, but we still have places where doctors and lawyers can work together and learn from each other. We call them medical schools and law schools.