DOCTORS’ CONFERENCE

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3798, 16 August 1932, Page 3

DOCTORS’ CONFERENCE

OWN PROF FSMION CIUTTCLSIKD INTERESTS OF THE PATIENT Caudill ci itiuj3j.ll uf of their own profession marked sum o of. the paiiers read by doctors at tlip session, cl' the British AJrodical Association’s uc lit on ary conference iji London. Dr. Mac-tie Campbell, director of the Boston Bsych jpathic Hospital, ill urging; a. luodernisatioii of the bedside manner, declared that <a XiiiysitianV first task was to listen, to comp) aiuts, grasp the dilliculty as it appears to the patient, and account for the sympi mi’/.-; origin and ‘exploitation, arid .r.nt merely register as d € 'lu.sis a.ay stale in o.uts conflicting with li.i s experience. Lord Dawson -of IV’’,n, in. his presidential aiddresr-., insisted oil the necessity for dsn-tors c-cmsidorijngj mental conditio’ 1 ;, wb.e.n diagiUQswvg. “The .art < f medicine,” he stud, ‘‘embraces a,u un.de-rstiW.vJin.g of illre% We neryl to take ooui't of the whole ina/i.” Lord Daws .u urged the formation of health hostels for “pe>plo with fat bodies and bat heads,” who wore clogged with their own. metnholie products. The kitchens of the hostels should he u.nder trai' ed dietitians.