MEDICAL BOYCOTT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13715, 3 October 1908, Page 3

MEDICAL BOYCOTT.

• DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AUCKLAND DOCTORS. r Per P«>-aa Association. AUCKLAND. (Vtolw 2. A meeting of medical men, who are not luembeii, of the British Medical Av siH-iatiiiu, was held last .night, primarily to consider the action of the Association in listing minimum fe-s under which its members ate allow.-.] to undertake Frieudly Societu*.' practice at 16s per member per annum for medical attendance alone. Soni-s medical men having taken Friendly Society work at a lower rate, the Association had refused :o allow its members tu meet them in consultation or operation.-* and other iuetho..Y> M-ere taken by the Aissociation to express, its disapproval of the lowering of lees. The meeting, which wau attended by nine medical men. pau-ed a rrsolu'ion de daring the action of the Association jl logical, mi r:iiii>ii. mi,uiing of childkslt»'"i. recking with envy, hatred, malice, ami all un.liaiiiab!eiic>e, ; and that it. is the duly of rverv practitioner to i.uccotir and help to ihe l>eM ol his „kill aiio 1 ability all who urgently and of necessity require such skill. It was further r.iL.lvd t» form a union of medical men, the fundi mrntal principle of which ehall be liberty of thought, with no bar to admission to any individual, to long a* he or she has riot brcome liable to the law ..I :hr Do minion ;a.W to convey thunkt, to th~ chemists and nurses who had piec-ived a j neutral attitude, though bated and bulli-d by the Auckland branch of the Medical j Association. j