Where Extremes Mingle

NZ Truth, Issue 943, 22 December 1923, Page 1

Where Extremes Mingle

The cablegrams from the United States about dishonest medical colleges and the Issue of bad certificates to unqualified "doctors" cause no surprise because America is the land of extremes. It can show the best and thb worst m many branches of citizenship. Some of the American dootors are the finest surgeons, at the same time the warmest supporters of substitutes (suoh aa Radium) itor the knife. The cause of preventive medicine—of employing the doctor not to cure sick people for fee. but to prevent people becoming sick — has some of Its finest advocates ln the United States. There arc tho two Mayoa, heads of the famous Mayo Clinic, and eminent exponents of tho advanced doctrines ot public health. Their names . .could command enormous fees, but &4Uey place themselves on salaries. And v 'Iflth all that la splendid goes much i. that Is sordid, ns tho quack prosecu- ■, lions demonstrate. The fame and the I jttfamy of medicine nowhere are m Llrftr .Ko^Plng 4han In the American