COERCION OF THE DOCTORS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24738, 15 October 1941, Page 9

COERCION OF THE DOCTORS

TO THE EDITOR Sir.—What kind of man would blindly promise to give free medical attention and medicine without the least glimmering of how it could be carried out? And what party of men—honest Britons, not aliens —would refuse to discuss it with the only persons who were in a position to give them full information on the subject? Mr Mason is surely not so innocent as to deny that the doctors iii the first place offered to discuss ways and means, but were rudely repulsed. What he does not realise, or does not want to realise, is that the doctors were wise enough to see the dangers of the Government’s scheme to the people. No question of good pay was ever mentioned; no overtime pay. and no 40 hours a week. They did not even stipulate that they must have four hours out of 24, for sleep. The Government was not concerned tg select a plan that would ensure safety for the people; the great idea was to get votes from foolish people although the effect would be to jeopardise all our lives and to make abject slaves of our best body of men. simply to prove that the Government is master whom we must obey at any cost to the community Let Mr Mason get down to a real study of the subject and try to think of the helpless public instead of upholding men who are not competent to manage a cabbage patch capably.—l am. etc.. Retribution.