TRAINING FOR DOCTORS.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13448, 2 June 1914, Page 2

TRAINING FOR DOCTORS.

The extraordinary divergence of medical opinion as to the sanity or, insanity of Thomas Edwin Brown, who was charged with having murdered Constable Hickey in Sydney, and was acquitted, but afterwards detained oh grounds of insanity, cannot be passed over without comment, says the "Sydney Morning Herald." The evidence of no less than 13 doctors was taken in the case; and the conclusion of six of them was completely opposed to the conclusion of the other seven. "It is," the "Herald" proceeds, "high time that medical men were given such a training in the diagnosis of madness that such a conflict of evidence should in future be put almost beyond the bounds of possibility. The public, in a case of this sort, does not know which set of doctors was right. What it does want is the assurance that its medical men will in future obtain sucli a training in this important department of modern medicine as will make impossible the occurrence of any of tho terrible mistakes for which the absence of such training leaves only too obvious an opening."