BETTER DOCTORING

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2618, 13 November 1915, Page 6

BETTER DOCTORING

RESULT OF WAR EXPERIENCE,

A marked increase in the ability 'of most doctors, particularly in surgery, is one of the benefits the nation will enjoy after t-lfo war, says a well-known teaching surgeon connected with one-of the great London medical schools. /'Hundreds of promising young men who but for tho war would have settled down into humdrum practice," he says, 'are now gaining aai invaluable practical experience of surgery, and when they start again as general practitioners their patients will get the benefit of a crowded and varied experience that tho doctors could not liavo obtained if there had been no war.

"Tile specialists will suffer, for doetors, thanks to their war-work experience, will be able to undertake many surgical cases which but for this experience they would have sent to specialists. Tho patient will also benefit by having to pay only a general practitioner's instead of a specialist's fees."

Further supplies of flowers are urgently wanted to-day. These should be delivered early this morning'. Yesterday's sales practically exhausted the stocks, although many hundredweights of flowers were received.

' "How long lias this restaurant been open " asked, the would-be diner. "Two years," said the proprietor. "I am sorry I did not know it," said tho guest. "I should be better off if I had come here then." "Yes," smiled the proprietor, very much pleased. "How is that?" "I should probablv have been served by this time if I had," said the guest, and tho entente cordialo vanished.