N.Z. DOCTORS PRAISED

Chronicle (Levin), 19 November 1946, Page 8

N.Z. DOCTORS PRAISED

-Press Associ'ation

By[, Telegravh-

(HRliS'fetLl' K()It, Xov. 18. 'Kew Zealainl medieul men were see,ond'To none in the'world, said Sir William Fletclier Rhaw, eminent English oiistetriciari, wlien speaking at. a Ataj'oral reeeption today. llis views were endorsed by Df. W. W. (IreuJieli, professor of ahalomy at Blanford Univefsily, California, vvlio also was preseht. v'Of all Ihe yoinig men eoming fo Bfitain to furfher their training, noiie is hetter tfained or a better docfor thfin a X'Cw Zealarnler, " said Rir William Rhaw. -Df, Greulieh said lie e.ould endorse what Rir William had said. "The standard of Xew Zealaiid inedieal training is well known and fecognised in Unitdd Rfates. Xev'v Zealanders ean consider tliehiselves fortunale. ' ' Sir \Villiam Rhaw said that inedieal scie.iiec was progressing so riipidiy that however well tfained a man mighi bn, it was next to iinpossible for him to keep up with events even tiiough he re(ul extensi vely aiul attended demoiist'rations llis eltief business in visiling Xeiy Zealaud was to ihaugur'ate a poslgfaduate hospital at Aueklaiid where up to date training eould be olitained in gyiiaeeology and obstetfies. Tlie liospitai, with its assoeiated ehair of obstetrics, was solely for the purpose of raising tlie standard in obstetrieul prhetice iii the Dotninion. Vouhg men, however well thev uiiglit be trained, eould not keep their knowledge up to date without siich an organisatioh. The medieal man to keei) abreast had to be a student all his life. "'Obstetfies will always be something to itself so loiig as Womeii insist' on tlie privilege of bringing ehildfeit into the world at a timo suitable to themselves and not at a tiiue when wd want to demoiistrate," he said with a smile. ' 1 'J 'J nis We iiiust have the means for grad'iiates to live in hospital witli tlie staff and see what is liappening. The lifoposed hospital and profOssorial ehair wiij enalile this to be done."