DEBIT AND CREDIT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 April 1928, Page 4

DEBIT AND CREDIT

DOCTORS AND PUBLIC HOSPITALS

(By Telegraph.—Special to "The Mail")

, AUCKLAND, This Day. I prefor to withhoM any general remarks on Sir Louis Barnett's statein regard to our hospitals, until '.lie Government has had ari opportunity of considering the recommendations of the Congress of the Australian and New Zealand College of Surgeons held at Canberra.” said Mr William Wallace, chairman of the. Auckland Hospital Board, when Sir Louis Barnett's statement was referred to hint. ”1 would like to sav a few words, however, on one phase cii : the interview—the desire of surgeons to give their services to the sick and the. poor gratuitously. I consider there is a debit and credit side to tins as shown by their own statements. The debit side is what surgeons owe to the hivspi. tills for experience gained in their prolossion at the hospitals, the credit, being the honorary services, much appreciated) by tbe boards, given by members r.i ihw profession to the hospital hoards of the Dominion. There is not the slightest doubt that many eminent members of the profession to-day owe their positions to experience gained in the pulVtSe* hospitals. There is nothing whatever- ri> prevent surgeons and physicians fO-mbin-mg with the view to establishing their own private hospitals up to whatever standard they require, hut-I feel confident that the Government will nove-t* agree to public money being expended) for the erection of private hos p Hat's w privnte blocks in public hospitals.”