FAITH IN DRUGS, NOT DOCTORS
Dr. Lynch Deplores Patients’ Attitude (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 30. The development of newer remedies and the increased skills in the practice of medicine have increased faster than the faith of the public in the doctor, according to the president of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association, Dr. P. P. Lynch. Speaking at the opening of the silver jubilee conference of the Chemists’ Service Guild of New Zealand in Auckland, he said tha\ often the patient had more faitn in the magic remedies which the doctors prescribed than in the advice and understanding that lay behind the remedy. The very usefulness of the drugs which were available to the doctor, and through him to his patients, to some extent diminished the stature of the doctor as a man.
There was also a tendency for the patient to heed the extravagant statements,, made about new therapeutic substances, said Dr. Lynch. It was not uncommon for a particular antibiotic, to be described as a “wonder drug.” “They are wonderful drugs,” he said, “but they are not. wonder drugs.”
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28265, 1 May 1957, Page 14
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