We have received a communication from a townsman, well known to most of us. This communication we have published in our correspondence columns. It refers to our local medical attendants, and complains that they will not meet in consultation when required by the relatives or friends of a patient who may be lying seriously indisposed. If this be the case it is very sad, and a grave reflection upon our local medical practitioners. These gentlemen should bear in mind that, belonging to one of the liberal professions, tliey should not stand towards each other as might two opposition barbers, or two cabmen disputing for a fare, or two bakers cutting out each other for a customer. The only remedy is, that if the people of Gisborne are dissatisfied with the medical aid now procurable, they should offer inducements for some other one to come into their midst. The feelings of sick people and the anxieties of their friends are not to be trifled with, if such really be the case. We observe that the Odd Fellows Society has advertised in the Auckland and Napier papers for a medical officer. The invitation may probably meet with a response which will result in a manner the "Father of a Family " desires.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 623, 11 February 1879, Page 2
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