FAMILY DOCTOR BENEFIT
TERMS NOT OFFERED TO MEDICAL PROFESSION STATEMENT BY DR. MeMILLAN [ Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN. Feb. .21, A statement that the terms and conditions of service of the family doctor benefit provided for in the Social Security Act had never been offered to doctors, was made by Dr. D. G. McMillan, M.P., when speaking at a public meeting al Green Island 10-night. Dr. McMillan said it was premature to blame the doctors for not working the benefit as the conditions of service had not been offered to them. He added that it was unfair to condemn the rank and file of the medical profession for not accepting what had not been offered to them. Their spokesman had certainly said they would not work the service, out they had said the same about the maternity benefit which they were ■ working to-day. As the representatives were anxious to get the Government to offer the best terms, the spokesmen of the medical profession could be excused for being over dogmatic and should not be taken too seriously.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 44, 22 February 1940, Page 6
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