Medical Gesture

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 14

Medical Gesture

LONDON, May 12. The Western Ophthalmic Hospital, London, well known to many New Zealand doctors and medical students who have worked there, has inaugurated an attractive practice whereby any New Zealand medical man in London may visit the hospital at any time to see the building and to become acquainted with the latest methods used there. Those registered practitioners who so desire may also spend three months, or longer, working at the hospital, when every facility will be extended to them to revise and add to their knowledge of ophthalmics. This unusual ofEer has been made with the idea of encouraging New Zealanders in London to feel that there is a centre of this nature where they will receive a welcome and where they may pay visits and work according to their desire. There are five ophthalmic hospitals in London, and a suggestion has been made that each should “adopt" a Dominion in this way and extend a standing welcome to visiting medical The Western Hospital is the first in the field with the idea, and it has selected New Zealand for itself because of many happy associations with New Zealanders who have worked there.