“Transformation Of Medical Scene”

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31317, 13 March 1967, Page 12

“Transformation Of Medical Scene”

The outspoken New Zealand Medical Association claims that in two years it has

brought about “an amazing transformation of the medico-political scene in this country.”

“To measure the extent of this transformation, one has only to turn back to the pages of the medical and national press three or four years ago,” the association says in its latest bulletin. “All was then peace and tranquillity on the medical front, but it was the peace and tranquillity of a conspiracy of silence.” The association said it would be naive to suppose the defects, shortages, inefficiencies and abuses in the system of medical care which now filled the columns of the newspapers and were even reluctantly acknowledged by Ministers and departmental heads, had arisen overnight. “They have been with us for a long, time, but it was not until the N.Z.M.A. came on the scene that the public

f was allowed to know about ; these things. ; “This year,” the association I adds, “we shall continue the ; never-ending task of acting as i the guide of the New Zealand community on medical matI ters. I “An ever growing number , of doctors is beginning to re- ' alise the value of our work, and the great necessity for it. . By the end of 1967 we expect ; the 1000th New Zealand doctor to have joined the N.Z.- ’ M.A.”