THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN NEW ZEALAND

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21117, 19 March 1934, Page 9

THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN NEW ZEALAND

•m. :sr imtiis or mr nn< Sir. It was most nmu.sms- and in a way enlightening, to read Dr. T. A. MaeGibbon's letter on Saturday on the state of the medical men in New Zealand during the past four years. Special stress was laid upon the fact that very few persons submit themselves to surgery in these days except at the public hospitals. Your correspondent loses sight of the fact that when people are flush of money, women especially, they vie with one another in confiding over the card tables, "when I had my operation. . . To Bay that sentence to another woman is just as important as being in a regalia of furs, Your correspondent seems to overlook, also, the fact that the general public is awakening to the fact that nature never intended us to be cut up and sewn up. for none of us has any "spare parts. As the old Tillage woman remarked. • ■\n .. ,T n tl-<*v r!or*nr* winl to look

at thev there innards'?" It is true doctors took to healing, and healing bv nature's methods. "What a wonderful world this will be when we can say —as we should that our country is so full of good health that doctors are no longer necessary With all due deference to them, it's a million pities that they are ever needed. Good health is what man is entitled to.-Yours, etc., A WAYKARF.R March IS. IM4.