AN APPEAL TO DOCTORS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 121, 18 November 1918, Page 6

AN APPEAL TO DOCTORS

mo FINANCIAL LOSS ENTAI&ED,

The allocation of doctors to districts Ts <Hie subject of the following- proposals, iwhich have been submitted by the jMinister to the medical profession: —

1. That the whole administration.of tha Scheme and the allocation* of districts be left to the medical men.

2. That each doctor be entitled to attend to all his own urgent private cases, fcherever they may b«. 3. That patients who are not • urgent, jfcasea be asked to surrender their doctors #or the present. ■ .4. That doctors concentrate their at-~ Jtention as far as possible on the ih■fluenza epidemic. It is not expected that all the medical men will come into the scheme at first, 'irat the Minister is confident that the of public. opinion .will soonin--snce most of them to step into. line. Mr. Russell desires the medical men to lia assured that none of them will suffer financially by coming into the scheme. He suggests that when things are normal, a committee of the British Medical fogether with "the" respon-* sible officers of the Health Department* shall fix a basis of honoraria for the public services rendered. In making this suggestion the Minister, expresses his high appreciation of the services that have been rendered and are being Tendered by the medical practitioners of the Dominion without tie slightest fin- j ancial consideration. He states that although the doctors themselves have mot raised the question, it is only just that those who are making such tremendous efforts to assist the counlnry should jjot be put to financial loss.