UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 219, 12 April 1933, Page 6

UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

Professor’s Proposal BETTER DOCTORS Press Association. —Copyright. Sydney, April 11. —At the annual meeting of the Royal Australian College! of Surgeons, Professor R. Gordon Bell suggested the establishment of a university hospital under the director of professors of medicine and surgery, and a system of compulsory universal sickness insurance. “The natural, logical outcome of the Bosch clinical professorships is the establishment of a university hospital of about 200 beds on the lines of the best German or Swiss university hospital clinics,” he said. “The professor of surgery would have absolute control of 100 loeds with an assistant staff of varying grade of seniority. I would like to see this experiment made at Sydney, controlled by the university and directed by its clinical professors.

“The students would benefit and the public in due course from better and better-trained doctors. It would have to be financed chiefly by the university and partly by the State.”

Professor 801 l was delivering the second George Syme oration. He criticised the free use of public hospitals for surgical treatment by persons who were able to pay for it.