DODGING THE DOCTOR.

Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17438, 24 August 1928, Page 8

DODGING THE DOCTOR.

I PEE iODICA L .MEDICAL ! OVERHAULS. i A PRECAUTION NEGLECTED. i j O.io of t!io Sydney newspapers lias : ],u J . to ;< number of leading citizens j with piquant results. the question i whether the average man is acting fair--1 ly to himself, to his dependents, and to society by calling in a doctor only when no is ill. and oiten. alas, when it is | tor late, instead of'submitting himself 1 t.. a regular r.ericdical .overhaul by a medical man, to see if any of the hear- ; ings in the human machine want tight- • ening up. Is tiho average man, it: j short, game to undergo a regular over- , haul, even when in apparently normal | he prefer to blind himself to the facts, ! health, and to hear the worst, or does i on the principle that, where ignorance |is bliss, ’tis lo.ly to lie wise. C; tleso interviewed, only one adj mitted that lie underwent a periodical ; overhaul. which is perhaps natural, i since his son is a doctor. The investi--1 gaticn. suggests that, while the average man takes every precaution to ensure ' tdo' 1 , his im t-n- car shall always he in perfect or at least good running order c i gives little or no attention to the i ca'o his Indy. Medical opinion is ; tliat financially, intellectually, and I me: ally it is wrong fer a. man to disi regard t’.e human machine until he is fared with a costly and often finnncial- : ly crippling illness, j The Federal Minister of Health. Sir NcriMo Howse. V.C.. wlio in private life has a lucrative medical practice, contends that every man between the ages of. say. 50 and 70. should go to a doctor at regular intervals for a thorough, overhaul.