A modern doctor's ideas in a 1692 medical setting

Would Dan, transported to 1692, be treated as a witch or placed in charge of a medical institution?

Dan expects both suspicion and recognition because his proposed practices would seem strange while, in his expectation, producing useful results.

Dan imagines unfamiliar medical ideas bringing both professional recognition and suspicion. His proposed changes include washing hands and cleaning surgical instruments. He would also reject the use of leeches and mercury in the circumstances being imagined. A joking exchange about mould raises the prospect of another unfamiliar treatment. He compares his imagined position with John Dee's mixture of learning and association with unusual knowledge a century earlier.