GREAT RESPONSIBILITY
GENERAL PRACTITIONERS THE MEDICAL PROFESSION BELFAST, July 21. “The general practitioner is glorified as something of a superman and anatomists and lecturers as Public Enemies No. 1 and No. 2 by medical students,” said Professor It. J. Johnstone, professor of gynecology at Queen’s University, Belfast, in his presidential address at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association. “The specialist must know almost everything about his subject and the general practitioner something about almost every subject,” said the professor. “He must diagnose without the skilled help which the specialist commands and carry out treatment with makeshift appliances and amateur nursing. “The responsibility of the general practitioner is greater than the specialist’s. He is a court of first instance. On his decision, a patient’s life may depend. His word may put a man in the dock or send him to the gallows.”. The meeting carried a motion asking the League of Nations to provide a special section of its health organisation to deal with war psychology.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 253, 6 August 1937, Page 5
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