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Doctors’ Attitude To Social Security

[Per Press Association . Copyright. 3 CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. “It is obvious that the medical profession must view the future with some feelings of doubt and uncertainty. “We are at the crossroads, and should be prepared to fight for what we consider is best for our patients and for ourselves,” said the newlyappointed president of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association, Mr P. Stanley Foster, commenting last night on the problems raised by the Social Security Act. Patients Come First. Mr Foster said that their first duty was to their patients, and they should assure the public of their intention to give them the best possible service at all times, perhaps even ih spite of social security. v -r “We may comfort ourselves with the knowledge that the services of good doctors are more indispensable now than ever they were,” he said. ♦ Mr Foster said the Social Security Act would make drastic changes in the work of the medical profession. Obscure Changes.

How gx-eat these changes would be many people, medical or lay, did not realise, but it was safe to say that the whole type of medical practice might be changed. It was only natural that any body of the community should vieW with some misgiving anything which would alter so completely their Whole work. It was hard to get clear judgment and

perspective. “It is clear that the profession must endeavour to maintain its standard of practice,” Mr Foster said.

“As a whole, the profession in New Zealand is outstandingly good, and the public has been well served, ■ even when payment has been doubtful. “The profession is surely entitled to security, and must be'assured Of it if high standards are to be maintained.”

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Northern Advocate, 22 February 1939, Page 7

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Doctors’ Attitude To Social Security Northern Advocate, 22 February 1939, Page 7

Doctors’ Attitude To Social Security Northern Advocate, 22 February 1939, Page 7

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