UP-TO-DATE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 128, 2 June 1939, Page 8

UP-TO-DATE.

DOMINION DOCTORS.

LEVEL WITH AMERICAN.

U.S. EQUIPMENT SUPERIOR. While In.-pital equipment and build - iiu - « ■■! e mill li hum r elaborate than in .\.W Zealand, til.- .tillMltml of medicine. " •'>- li" lii'jlicr in America tllit.ll ill tin . Dominion, r.iiil l>r. (iiirucld Sjewart. "t" l.ikapuiia, who ii-tunii'd in day by tin . Aw.lll-,1. Ill' Wii* accompanied lIV hi- " ill- .Mid I w.. MMI- mi a tuiir ni Canada and 111.- I nitcd States. Dr. Stewart wa--t nd\ in;.' liiw|iital method-, in |||.N«> foini-

I illll .-ali-lied." lie decla i.-d. "that I.ill- r-p. .-iali.-t- are a,- ll|i tn-date .ih th..-e in Auicric.i and Canada." Fiei|iu-nt ly |iei.].|(. had icl< lied in his presence to the -kill of New Zealand doctors win. had I.ecu \i-itni;: the I'iiitcd State-. Knr .\aniple. Dr. t'. K. Hercils. ,|ean of the laeiiltv of medicine at the I'ni- \ cr-.it V, wat- t'rec|uent 1 v mentioned as a man wlin had made a jrreat i-onlribllt ioll t ilti-ill -yc'lencc,-.

New Zfiiland doctor* invariably seemed 1.. rceei\e the •■ reuler«t hii-pitality fniin ( an.idi.lll ami American d.iet.uv. lie said. The mere fart that a (loi-tor c-ame fiuiii New Zealand wa* Meilical lin-ii there went tn llulle-s t roll lilt' tn (leinnnstrate vaiimis jis]ieet> of their work, or jn-t merely t'> entertain. "Their kindlie-- wa- eimi|.;h tn make out , blu-ll, " Mi. Stewart added.

"Both in Canada and America, doctors lire on tiptoes with expectation to see how New Zealand's plan for social security will develop," he said. ".It is rejiardcd as a jfri-at experiment, and one with potentialities."

One development in America which had imprc-cd him, l>r Stewart said, was a -\-tcm of e\i medical men between the Inited States and other count rics. inents in American h.i-pitals wen- iniiilu available to foreign iloctors. while locul iloct'irs were received m institutions overseas. In the result,, both sets of doctor* received wider training and appreciation of ntli'-r inetliiMi' and other outlooks, both of which were of benefit to the medical profession as a whole.