OPEN HOSPITAL SYSTEM.
(To the Editor.) f ,. Sir,—The- public should be told .the whole truth about this proposed new hds-' pHal system; The anonymous X medical man iri your article of June 12 may (of "nay n6tj he true a 9 far as he" goes, but fee cfeftamly are material facts which ; mc £' ye theiri now:— : The fpttstle of this new system is a Df: McEaehera, and iri an interview he f*feffj " The introduction, of. the open. hospital and paying wards is 'a first !te lL a ?. d '$}$. a first step.' The" present poptflar elections must be done away Trith,'. or the whole system could be altered again-in a; year or two. So the Mjances-'of the hospitals must be f'iiu V voluntary organisations, and these, «% with the 8.M.A., will nominate the boards of Control." •Now, sir, we are coming to the truth °M- ma '^ er> It sounds very reason: a We that one's dwri doctor should , attend us iri the hospital; *1 airi quite a favour of that, and always have been. article states that-at present on 7 the hospital dde'tofs are unto 1 date and fitted to diagnose cases. He gives D ° evidence of this. I have given evidence" to the contrary,- arid ask a ny of your readers to deejde if it is reasonable; It is the oiitside d&ctor who Mat sees the case, diagnoses it, writes a ™nptioi, of it, and. sends! the case ™w_the letter to the -hospital: X he' ot hkely to gain experience father than l « hospital doctors) who have all their diagnosed for them? i I know, indeed, that they have such ».«onceit. of themselves that they tdke ' y , n °tice of information given- them. f '?f . cflrr espdndeiit fought shy of my fracture argiimeht. Perhaps lie will feel answGr th _ fo n ow ing:'l have for jer 20 years examined the breast cases. 1 * .wide country district, and never round oh> that I advised to be operated. _ Ft 111 recovered witho.ut dpefatidfi; •*- I kftow of no case that Went .to consulting ' ine) whom-. d n ! d not opiate upoii. Now, how fa I - Correspondent explain this ■* M if his collengues are up to date? I I "Mt. 'explain it by the to mc obvious '__' i tllev o P er ate dfi tod many ml m ut suffl ciently careful '_* i" d in cons equence they lose tM f,;* rto distinguish cancers from simple raiflours.- ■■ '«_'i Sayi '*"*' the B.M.A. has pfacm control, and misuses it to the--2. n of the lif « and of m : tt_T : ' : P* onl y shadow of pcSiverV in g>j; handsi of the-board is the ability to _» aD f dismiss the superintendent and ■__a ■ s bufc a shadow, and .the" h,_ ' deßire s to rembve at from theii? "™ness horizon. We Would dd Well ™ defeat this organised agitation, which f jpng on in both Australia and NeW ■«5 ,d * We should rather see what !i be don o to give the board more And, of course,, the;: first ,ste| ~ !° have a superiuteriderit Who is not 'J man. Men like myself, Who skilled knowledge and ttre out to.' 2. tne public, could go to him and' ; *Wn our views, and be cduld-act as s «W«r between us.—l amj etc*, .' -"■ I
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1926, Page 15
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