DR. ULRIC WILLIAMS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 6

DR. ULRIC WILLIAMS

Sir. Dr. Williams for a long time desired to wear a martyr's crown and he appeared to court persecution. To be persecuted by one’s profession is to ensure the sympathy of the unthinking. To attack a vested interest is to peg out a permanent claim to the attention of those who see a nigger in every woodpile. In his latest free advertisement in the Wanganui “Chronicle” Dr. Williams has forsaken the role of the martyr and taken upon himself the role of the persecutor. Why this reversal of roles? When he asks: “What doctor desires to see disease abolished?” he reveals his own mentality. What peculiar people the medicas must be seeing that thenresearch workers devote their lives to discovering cures for disease, and their practitioners opened their youth in learning how to treat diseases, and then refrain from using their expensively acquired knowledge. Let us take a specific case: A man breaks his leg. The doctor is called in and, according to Dr. Williams, that doctor does not desire to set the bones so that they will knit properly. Is that common experience? There is an old saying ‘ Don’t measure other people’s corn with your own bushel,” which being interpreted means that Dr. Williams should not attribute his own motives to other people, for when he asks. “What, doctor desires to see disease abolished?” he surely includes himself. Now. as you know Mr. Editor, and you can vouch to your readers for it, lam not a member ofrthe medical pro-

fession nor am I associated with it in any way. But I am interested in this self-appointed judge of the medical profession. Will Dr. Williams produce his credentials and reveal his professional standing as compared with the practitioners he criticises? What degrees in medicine and surgery has he? Are they high or low degrees? What kind of pass man was he? Where and when did he qualify and to what extent did he qualify?

Further, seeing that Dr. Williams has been practising along his own line for some time, it is to be presumed that he has met with a greater measure of success than he did when he followed orthodox practice. His own case book should therefore prove to be of great value. Is he prepared to submit history of his cases (all of them) to an impartial tribunal? Before Dr. Williams can enthrone himself as the judge of the medical profession the public is entitled to know something of his qualifications and accomplishments. I am, etc..