MEDICINE UP-TO-DATE.
VALUE OF CHEERFULNESS.
MORE CURATIVE THAN DRUGS.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, October 5.
Dr. E. B. Turner, lecturing to budding doctors at Saint George's Hospital, said that the grave, dour-look-ing doctor was no longer fashionable. A doctor who was "full of beans" was much likelier to do the patient good. The convention that the doctor's habiliments and physiognomy should be as sombre as those of an undertaker had been relegated to the limbo of outworn superstition. He told the story of a man operated upon who died and left instructions that the fees due Id a young surgeon should be paid thrive over because he cheered him up. "You'll frequently find that if you discuss the iniquities in the law courts and the cricket championship you will have done the sufferer more "good than could be effected by drugs," he concluded.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19231008.2.44
Bibliographic details
Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15360, 8 October 1923, Page 5
Word Count
145MEDICINE UP-TO-DATE. Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15360, 8 October 1923, Page 5
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waikato Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in