HONORARY SURGEONS

Evening Star, Issue 22619, 10 April 1937, Page 13

HONORARY SURGEONS

AUCKLAND APPOINTMENTS CHALLENGED EXPERT advice ignored [Feb United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, April 9. Criticism that the recent elections for senior and assistant honorary surgeons to the Auckland Hospital were unfairly conducted and that the Hospital Board showed an absolute disregard of its expert advisers is made by Dr Frank Macky, chairman of the honorary staff, in a statement he has made on behalf of the whole staff. Dr .Macky said that the statements that had been made _ were _ definitely misleading on material points. “A direct result of these elections is that three members of the senior surgical staff have been dismissed without any reason and replaced by men with inferior expedience and shorter service to the hospital,” says Dr Macky. “ Subsequently this selection was unanimously approved by a fuller meeting of the board, to the surprise and disquiet of the medical men engaged in the work of the hospital and of those engaged in general practice in the city. It is patent that individual members of the board never considered seriously the recommendations of the two expert committees, both of which had brought forward reports at the request of the board, and let it be noted that these two reports were identical. The action of the board clearly shows an absolute disregard of its exipert advisers and of its own committees.”