Doctors’ Fees
Sir,—“New Zealander” is adrift. The Otago Medical School produced 30 graduates a year in 1930 and is now strained to produce 100. The registration, and occasional deregistration, of doctors is done by the New Zealand Medical Council, a statutory body, which registers automatically any graduate from a medical school with which
New Zealand has reciprocity: United Kingdom, Australia, and some of North America. Those from Europe, Asia, and some schools in North America are required to spend varying times in Dunedin. Neither body has anything to do with the 8.M.A.., which was founded to maintain scientific standards but now finds itself reluctantly, often tardily, involved, in relationships between doctors and government. Except in a national crisis, such as war, doctors, like any other New Zealanders, would Oppose being directed to work in any particular place. As for “raking in £4OOO a year,” your correspondent is welcome to accompany me and carry my rake for a few days.—Yours, j. RICHARD DAWSON. September 17, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31168, 19 September 1966, Page 16
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