(Probably Found) Short story title request - medical bag of high tech cures

[Datastream]

Can anyone point me towards the author/title of a short story I read some years ago which I would dearly like to see again? It has a great deal of relevance IMO to the way things are going!

It concerns IIRC a "doctor" with his medical bag full of high tech equipment which diagnoses and cures patients. The point of the story is that he, like just about everyone else, is effectively uneducated and of low intelligence: the majority of the world is populated by these people. The educated, intelligent people who invent all the gadgets live on islands away from the rest: the majority live in happy ignorance believing they are top dogs although in fact they would be helpless without their high-tech gizmos which actually enable them to function.

Grateful for any feedback!

 

[lazygun]

I have posted only because i know i have read this story,but at the moment can be of no more help,sry to all concerned.:blush:

A collection by or including Sheckley rings a far off bell,nothing more...?...:blush:

More thought,...think it was maybe part horror?...2 other names..James Blish..Thomas A Disch..?...might be of some help?.

 

[Ravensquawk]

"The Little Black Bag" by Cyril M. Kornbluth matches most of this.
This story has a medical bag get "misdelivered" from the future into our time, a bag that any idiot in the future could use because brilliant people had designed it to work almost by itself, even when used by incompetents.

A decent, though fading and alcoholic, fully qualified M.D. in our time finds it, but is blackmailed into misusing by a nasty guttersnipe girl who blackmails him into letting him become his assistant. Her goal is simply to get rich.

While it does take place in our time, connected to a future (over)populated by people too dysfunctionally stupid to live, managed by a few overworked intelligent people, several of Kornbluth's stories, particularly "The Marching Morons", do take place in that same kind of future.

 

[Ravensquawk]

It was also answered, in a kind of reverse order, in this SFF question.
I can't post even a SFF link, but it was a story identification question about "The Marching Morons" on October 7, 2006.