MEDICAL PROFESSION
TOO MANY STUDENTS? OPINION IN WELLINGTON 1 lPer Pr«»» Association.) ■' WELLINGTON, this day., Commenting ,ou the statement, made by Sir Lindo Ferguson, that it was likely that the number of students proposing to enter the medical profession in New Zealand would have to be limited, a Wellington practitioner said: —"1 know they are up against it in Dunedin, but J do not think it is wise to attempt to dictate to the young wluit profession they may or may not enter. Ido got say this in a spirit ot criticism, but we should not be hasty, but should defer action untjil the necessity for restriction is positively ’established.” A surgeon remarked that political events in Europe during the last year or two have produced an embjirrassineht which no one could have anticipated. Many medical practitioners arc already contemplating the Dominions as suitable ebuntries in which to practise. The situation will necessarily become more acute with ■ the spread through Austria and other European countries of the influences which have already driven Jewish medical students from Germany. During the last 10 years the influx of qualified medical men from overseas who were entitled to practise in the Dominion aver aged 15 newcomers annually.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18355, 24 March 1934, Page 5
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203MEDICAL PROFESSION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18355, 24 March 1934, Page 5
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