ENGLAND LAGS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 75, Issue 6442, 5 November 1947, Page 3

ENGLAND LAGS

SURGICAL AND MEDICAL METHODS *■ •*■,* s ■* AMERICA SAID TO BE MORE PROGRESSIVE England is years behind America in surgical and medical methods, said Dr. G. B. Orbell, of Invercargill, who returned last week by air from thfj United States. Dr Orbell, who left New Zealand with the Boy Scout contingent as medical adviser, studied’ eye, ear, nose and throat treatments in England and the United States, spending six weeks in each country. Di* Orbell, whose studies were confined chiefly to a certain type of deafness and to allergies, such as hay fever, asthma and eczema, was stationed in America at the famous Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. At Mayo, he said, an average of 159 major operations a day were performed; 800 new, patients entered the clinic daily and every branch of surgery and medicine was practised. People from all over the United States and its territories were treated there. He had* met patients from Alaska and the Phillipines. “When I first saw the English methods, I thought my studies were going to be difficult,” Dr Orbell said, “but the Americans simplified them very much.”