FEWER DOCTORS

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1933, Page 3

FEWER DOCTORS

MEDICAL FACULTY’S ADVICE. VICTIMISATION ALLLEGED. A suggestion that the Waikato Hospital Board was being penalised in the supply of young medical men, newly qualified, on account of the attitude of the subdean of the medical faculty at Otago University was made at the last meeting of the Hospital Board. Dr. M. M. Hockin, medical superintendent, stated that young medical graduates were not coming forward for vacancies and the hospital was in constant need of staff. The reason, he believed, was because the sub-dean was advising students not to enter closed hospitals as they were likely to receive better experience at hospitals with honorary staffs. He was taking the xnatter up'with the sub-dean.

The opinion that there should be no such victimisation of the hospital simply because there was no honorary staff was expressed by the chairman (Mr. J. J. Ryburn). Mrs. C. K. Wilson (Te Kuiti):.You can hardly blame the dean for making any. recommendations he thinks fit to his students. <

Mr. J. C. Rolleston agreed, and doubted whether the dean would advise his students to enter closed hospitals when he honestly believed -they received better experience at hospitals with honorary staffs. „ Mr. Ryburn considered the board should be given a fair deal. There should be no such embargo on the Waikato Hospital. If the Health Department did not believe in closed hospitals it should say so but under present conditions all hospitals should be on the same basis regarding their ability to receive medical staff, ... . , : '

The matter was . left in the ■ hmjds of the chairman and medical superintendent with power to act. ''