MEDICAL PROFESSION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18991, 12 October 1923, Page 8

MEDICAL PROFESSION

PANEL DOCTORS IN ENGLAND. CONDITIONS UNDER INSURANCE SCHEME. Praa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 10. The agreement between the Ministry of Health and the panel doctors in connection with national insurance has expired. Hitherto the State has paid the doctors 9s 6d per head. After long negotiations the doctors definitely refused a final offer of the Ministry of Health of 8s 6d per head for three years, and asked that the matter should be submitted to arbitration. —A. and N.Z. Cable. THE MODERN DOCTOR. LIVELY DEMEANOUR NEEDED. LONDON, October 5. Dr E. B. Turner, a well-known London medical authority, lecturing to budding doctors at Saint George’s Hospital, said the grave, donr-looking doctor was no longer fashionable. A doctor who was “full of beans” was much more likely to do the patient good. The convention that the doctor's habiliments and physiognomy should be as sombre as those of an undertfiker had been relegated to the limbo of Outworn superstitions. He told the story of a man operated upon who died and left instructions that the fees due to a young surgeon should be paid thrice, over because he cheered him up. “You will frequently find that if you discuss the iniquities of the tax gatherer the latest scandal in the latv and the cricket championship you will have done the sufferer more good than could be effected by drugs,” Dr Turner concluded.