MEDICAL ETIQUETTE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 14070, 26 May 1906, Page 6

MEDICAL ETIQUETTE.

TO THE EDITOR. §ir, —I have read with much interest your remarks and reports on medical , etiquette and can only express the übmcet surprise that on such scanty materials you can found such largo assumptions and speak with such authority on a subject which yon state is “curious and mysterious.” Where is the mystery if you know all about itP The curiosity is obvious. Ae a medical man of some years standing I am struck by the significant anonymity of the interviews you publish. It is, so easy for medical men to give opinions unsupported by their names. It would bo interesting to know on what grounds your representative selected the doctors, and whether their names, if published, would lend weight to their remarks. I very much doubt it. I understand tliat in this colony interviews with medical men on subjects of general interest are somewhat frequent, and I would suggest that, in future they follow the example or Dr Collins, th© chairman of the Medical Council, and attach their names to their opinions. They ( will then probably be much more care- | fill what they say, and the public will . know what oracle epoaketh. Surely, medical etiquette is not responsible for this eelf-eacrificing silence. Dr Collins docs it, and he is the chairman of the Council. —I am. etc., . HIPPOCRATES. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l have read tho letters about 1 tho craze for opcrations and the doctors’ opinions concerning the thing they call medical etiquette. Excepting the 1 Christchurch trams I don’t know anything or anyone that kills more people than tho doctors. I, therefore, think , that the doctors should be pub under j similar supervision to tho motormen, I that inspectors should be appoantod to j watch them at their work, and that |

they should ha put on the merit and demerit system.—l ara, etc., MOTORMAN.