FAKE DOCTORS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18965, 17 March 1924, Page 5

FAKE DOCTORS

AMERICA’S UNCLEAN LIST MEDICAL EXAMINERS CHARGED WITH FRAUD w The committee which has been investigating charges that large numbers of fake physicians were practising in the United States, has presented a damaging report, in which it charges members of the examining board with corruption. Received March 16, 8.40 p.m. NEW YORK, March 15. The Harkford grand jury, which has been investigating medical frauds for months, returned a presentment charging members of the state board of medical examiners with fraud and dishonesty adding that certain members thereof connived with the officials of extra-state colleges to give the latter’s graduates special consideration if they took the Connecticut examination. The presentment specifically condemns two Boston colleges, one Kansas City and one St. Louis College, stigmatising the last named as a “diploma mill,” which apparently moved heaven and earth to procure favours from Connecticut examiners. The jury intimates that if the last named had done their duty those students would never have received the certificates. They received them only by fraud, deceit and disobedience. The jury concludes: We have not completed our investigation. We must inquire into the so-called healing arts, because Connecticut offers a field of exploitation to persons practising cults and questionable theories not permitted elsewhere in the United States.