MEDICAL PRACTITIONER SCHEME
Sir.—You print in to-day's issue of your Daper a statement from the British Medical Association, which runs as follows: "The law necessarily has powers of compulsion. These are exercised, for example, in dealing with criminals, and other infringers of the law. Doctors, however, do not come into this category." etc. The public is aware of the compulsion used against trade unionists who refuse work at the present time, and in my oninion. if it is necessary in the country's interest to force waterside workers or coalmine workers to work, it is even more necessary in the interests of society that the doctors be made to obey the law. The only difference that I can perceive between the doctors as a body and the other workers mentioned is that while the wharf workers or coalmine workers are disobeying the law they have no income.—Yours, etc., _ R. HYLAND. Springfield, April 8. 1941.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23300, 9 April 1941, Page 12
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