SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS
HOSPITALS' COMPLAINT
HOUSE SURGEONS WANTED
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evenino Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. Sir Lindo Ferguson, Dean of the Medical Faculty of tho Otago XTciversity, says that the school during the past eight years has been. unable to supply the demand for house surgeons in tho Dominion. Kecently the Waikato Hospital complained that it could not obtain graduates from thorn for resident positions, and within the last few yoars medical men had been brought from outside New Zealand to fill the vacancies. •; For the next three years they xould not possibly look forward to having more than .40 graduates each year, and the four main hospitals this, year demanded 27 house surgeons. For the next three years at all events they could'look forward to placing: graduates in resident positions. His chief concern about the number of students was that with'a community the size of ours they could not expect more than 50 men each year of the calibre necessary to make good medical men. „ - .
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 94, 22 April 1933, Page 10
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