THE MEDICAL COUNCIL.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 27, 23 July 1904, Page 3

THE MEDICAL COUNCIL.

Christchurch Truth says, That remarkable body, the New Zealand Medical Council, has been putting its foot in it again. There is a doctor in Feilding who is a specialist in, diabetes and allied complaints. He treats patients in all parts of the colony, and he had the misfortune to arouse the jealousy of the New Zealand Medical Council, which isn't a specialist, and doesn't get fat fees. The Medical Council consists of half -a dozen covetous and narrowminded Wellington doctors. The profession apparently is nominally represented by quarterly meetings of this Council, to which each section is entitled tp send a member. But as medical men can't afford the time for dealing with the operation lust, and otherwise dissecting humanity, to visit Wellington, they either are not represented at all, or else some Wellington doctor acts as their representative. This alleged Council recently passed a jaundiced resolution about the Feilding specialist, and cast several gloomy aspersions on his behaviour. Fortunately, the specialist in question had no idea of allowing half-a-dozen Wellington gentlemen to tarnish his reputation, and hie promptly threatened to expose them to the British Medical Association, under which fearful threat the Wellington cotorie hastily backed down, with very bad grace, and without any sort of apology. Now the Manawatu Hospital Board has just passed a resolution of sympathy with the persecuted doctor, and drawn public attention to the incident. The public isn't greatly interested in the petty squabbles of the medical profession, but the incident is important as throwing a lurid glare on the methods of the body to which the Government a short time ago proposed to hand over the whole authority to admit or reject medical men who desired to practice in this colony. ________