Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: The resultant public mockery created panic within the medical profession and ruined the careers of several prominent surgeons .
Simplified: The public learned of the fact that the doctors had been fooled and this created panic within the medical profession . Several important surgeons ' careers were ruined , and many works were made that made fun of the doctors , each very critical of the affair .