ROUGH ON DOCTORS
A “ G. 8.5.” OUTBURST. LONDON, September 3. Bernard Shaw has joined in the fierce discussion of the Irish Free State Government’s decision to establish a separate register for the medical profession in that country. He says that ho hopes Ireland will be rescued from the disastrous control of a despised and self-disgraced trade union—namely, the British Medical (louncil. Unregistered London practitioners, like the bone-setter, Sir Herbert Barker, charge—and willingly are paid— higher fees than registered ones, because they have acquired modern technique, which the council boycotts and persecutes. “ G. 8.5.” declares that some of the registered surgeons who have ostracised Sir Herbert Barker are hardly dexterous enough to manipulate their own shoe-laces.
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Evening Star, Issue 19044, 12 September 1925, Page 10
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115ROUGH ON DOCTORS Evening Star, Issue 19044, 12 September 1925, Page 10
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