WANTED, STATE-DOCTORS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13097, 23 April 1908, Page 6

WANTED, STATE-DOCTORS.

In the current issue of Zealand Medical of the profession, and of which, Ifr;F«<||l| of Wellington, is the editor, the torial article is based, apon a teresting letter from Dr. PFenwick, of ChristchurcV in wnca JBJ&ig latter advocates the eebtAlishwg Government medical serrue.. -r~ t :? , article the "Journal" J % ou ,w£ %i during the past year: member?;.«?«* *" 0* Home and in the colonies' bare' r ; "profoundly dissatisfied with;tiungSvas;;s| they are," and adds:— "« the. V*°f*-$g sion Were overmanned, the would soon right itself; men ir ? seek other more- remunerative WOTfcp|| But it is not so; the trouble is; doctors are exploited by the* P 13 ™ , they -work for nothing in the,fcospitajs||| so ivell-to-do people flock there 4*,\WJj|3j treated for nothing; they are suram<H??J| i'ed from their beds or meals 'to ■ eoc*s|j§ dents, for which they are never 'P* l *-&M they attend tho benevolent homes-***|j| numbers of similar institutions and they give ambulance lectures The result of all this is that the tua*||| is ripe for somo change; whether Fenwick's suggestion is a good one «||| not we aro not prepared to cay. ~«; :y : sWi It is time for doctors really to face position and make up their min&.b<f<jS£» they will act. for that somo must bo made seems quite certi ??slsi It looks as if things were tending ,v solution on somo such lines as *BsPssSm that doctors .should bo divided three classes. Class 1, possessed 'fit^WsßM

wt possible degrees and tho highest ientiSc attainments, to be paid bj the State, and to give their time ii *? jjj a j n to scientific research; Claso to consist of purely operating stir .*' --ri *"' — *<i consist' of men *ith * nw?re pass qualification, whicl <eald be obtained at a less cost thai. ... <..--,i>.- aim in less time.

'" * With this division into classes • there would be less inducement for tin nblic *° S° to cnem, * sts > herbalists, or '■ nacks or mlnor ailments; and counter prescribing by chemists and dispensing j,y doctors might bo forbidden."