MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE
NO CURE FOR EVERY DISEASE. LONDON, October 4. The King’s physician, Sir Farquhar Buzzard, in an article in the Lancet, declares that the prevailing public distrust of doctors and doctoring can be remedied only by the doctors dropping all claimsi to cure. “Medical knowledge,” he adds, “is increasing, but the public judge only by results. Thus the profession is criticised because it can neither cure cancer nor a common cold. , Such criticism is based on the assumption that there is a cure for every disease if only it can be found. This assumption is quite unfounded. “The profession heed not fret about its comparative lack of knowledge, provided it does, not claim to cure disease. Such claims should be left to quacks and charlatans, who will always find the public ready to believe theih." He believes that the future of medicine lies chiefly in the prevention of disease.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 December 1929, Page 4
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