ROUGH ON DOCTORS
BERNARD SHAW’S OUTBURST. LONDON, September 3. Mr Bernard Shaw has joined in the fierce discussion of tho Irish Free State Government’s decision to establish a separate register for the medical profession in that country. He says that he hopes Ireland will be rescued from the disastrous control of a despised and self-disgraced trade union—namely, the British Medical Council. Unregistered London practitioners, like the bone-setter, Sir Herbert Barker, charge—and willingly axe paid—higher fees than registered ones, because they have acquired modern technique, Which the council boycotts and persecutes. Mr Shaw declares that some of the registered surgeons who have ostracised Sir Herbert Barker are hardly dexterous enough to manipulate their own shoelaces
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19584, 14 September 1925, Page 8
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114ROUGH ON DOCTORS Otago Daily Times, Issue 19584, 14 September 1925, Page 8
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