THE INSURANCE ACT

Evening Star, Issue 15240, 19 July 1913, Page 11

THE INSURANCE ACT

An attac'v on medical men on tho insurance panel who did not join the original panel of 21 doctors formed before the interdict of the British Medical Association was withdrawn was made bv ].)r Biggs at a recent mcetim.' of the r-rdilf Insurance Committee. " "" Dr Bigtti said the medical men on the panel who wevc. not among t\w original 21 had treated the 21 in an abominable manner, and in a way which reminded one very much of the ••white shirt parades" in the- coal valleys, only \vor*e. This kind of '•'entertainment" might be very interesting to the Welsh colliers, but'it was degrading when practised by the members of an honorable profession. They had tried social ostracism, and declined consultations, and they had even extended their animus towards wives. These medical men had attempted to procure a boycott of the 21 by consultants', an unscrupulous action, calculated to do much damage ! to th 0.21 in their profession. "In fact." I added Dr Biggs, '' they take no thought j of the patients in their efforts to "ratify their own spite." ' j