Doctors’ Fees
Sir,—Members of the pressure group with the highest average income in New Zealand are now greedily agitating for increased fees, in spite of the fact that this country is in serious financial difficulties. Is it not time that the - Government set up a State medical service, with salaried medical officers who would not need to be paid £4OOO a year or more? Immigrant doctors would be only too happy to co-operate. Doctors holding degrees from recognised overseas universities should not be required to sit further examinations at our pathetic little Medical School. Are the bodies of New Zealanders any different from those of Europeans, Americans, or, for that matter, Asiatics? An architect, engineer, dentist or medical school lecturer who ' comes from overseas does not have to take examinations here before being permitted to practise his profession. Why should doctors? That is a racket introduced for the sole benefit of the medical profession here.—Yours, etc., NEW ZEALANDER. September 9, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31161, 10 September 1966, Page 14
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