DOCTORS’ HARD HEARTS.
MEN CROSSED IN LOVE. Dealing with the causes that lead .people to take up the medical profession, Sir Humphrey Rolleston, in presenting the prizes to medical students at Charing Cross Hospital, recently, mentioned disappointment in love. He instanced the ca.se ot a distinguished professor of anatomy at Trinity College, Dublin, James M’Cartney, who, when Iris offer of marriage was refused by a lady, “determined to adopt the profession of surgeon in order to harden his heart.”—(Laughter.) Sir Humphry said that at the present time there was reason to believe that the medical profession was overstocked by those recently qualified. Last year the number of now practitioners was 2482, the highest on record, and the rate was now approaching one medical man for every 1000 of the population.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19349, 9 December 1924, Page 11
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