MEDICAL BILL

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 298, 13 September 1941, Page 12

MEDICAL BILL

Otago Doctors Would Not Accept Service B.M.A. DIVISION DECISION Dominion Special Service. DUNEDIN, September 12. At a special general meeting of the Otago division of the British Medical Association held to consider the proposed general practitioner service embodied in the Bill to amend the Social Security Act' now before Parliament, the following motion was passed without dissent:— (1) That the Otago division of the 8.M.A., recognizing the necessity for continuing to supply medical services to the community, pledges itself to continue the same, but at the same time firmly declines to accept service under this amendment if it should be passed by Parliament; (2) that the medical practitioners of New Zealand cannot consider this amendment or any other radical change in the conduct of medi cal practice unless the proposals entailing such change are submitted for the opinion, of all practitioners who are absent on active service; that the Government offer of two years’ guaranteed income after demobilization does not meet the difficulty that any radical changes may adversely affect the welfare of medical men with 20 or 30 years of active professional life in prospect.