The Black Death was a catastrophic event in Europe's history. It had good and bad consequences. Historians argue that the black death revealed the flaws with medieval medicine and pushed medicine to improve, while others argue that the black death did very little for medicine. The Black Death did expose the problems of the medical system in Europe at that time. As a result the top medical doctor’s focused their time on the cause and how to prevent the black death instead of treating people and practicing medicine, this could have been because they were unable to successfully treat the plague. The Black Death made physicians hustle to make breakthroughs for the plague and try to get to the top of their respected medical field by making writings
