DOCTOR’S RESIGNATION

Southland Times, Issue 22729, 4 November 1935, Page 6

DOCTOR’S RESIGNATION

BOARD MEMBER’S REMARKS.

REFERENCE BY HONORARY STAFF.

(Per United Press Association.) Wellington, November 2. At a meeting of the honorary medical staff of the Wellington Hospital reference was made to the resignation of Dr T. F. Corkill, and. it was decided to send a memorandum to the board registering an emphatic protest and resentment at the published remarks of a member of the board when it was dealing with Dr Corkill’s resignation. The memorandum states: “The staff has the utmost confidence that the action taken by Dr Corkill was based on the highest and most honourable motives and a strict sense of duty. That he should be charged with petty meanness, self-seeking and a breach of professional ethics is an affront to the whole staff. Such remarks made in reference to a physician so highly respected by the laity and the medical profession throughout the Dominion do not credit whoever makes them. In addition there are considerable valid grounds for Dr Corkill’s criticism of certain recent actions of the members of the board.”

The Wellington Hospital Board has appointed Dr H. Baj-ldon Ewen, late medical superintendent of the hospital, to the position of assistant physician.