EXAMINATION FOR DRUNKENNESS
Attitude Of BMA PA WELLINGTON, May 6. The British Medical Association is opposed to any rigid method of examination of motorists for intoxication. This statement was made by Dr J. O. Mercer for the New Zealand branch of the association, commenting on the remarks made by Mr S. S. Preston, S.M., at Hawera. Dr Mercer, answering an inquiry on the attitude of the BMA, said that doctors must be free to exercise their own judgment as to what clinical examination they made and how they expressed their findings in words. “It is essential in these cases that diseases which simulate alcoholism should be excluded and no rigid form of examination can be devised to satisfy this condition,” he said.>
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27383, 8 May 1950, Page 6
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