RADICAL ALTERATIONS NECESSARY
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, September 6. "The Bill will require radical alteration before it will meet with the approval of the profession," said Dr. L. Gi Drury, president of the Auckland division of the B.M.A. Some of the most noticeable omissions, he said, were the absence of any provisions for a doctor or a patient to continue their own private arrangement as at present if either or both desired'to; the fact that no notice had been taken of the B.M.A. request for the payment of a small fee by a patient when he was able to do so to the Social Security Fund for each consultation, and the fact that no heed had been given to the doctors' request that men on active service should be consulted regarding the measure. These rendered the Bill impossible of approval, even to those disposed to think some change in medical practice .in the future was desirable and inevitable. Dr. Drury added that a meeting of the division would be held next Wednesday to discuss the Bill.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1941, Page 6
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