MEDICAL ETIQUETTE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 9

MEDICAL ETIQUETTE

GLARING HEADLINES AND

PHOTOS

DEEMED UNDESIBABLE FOR

DOCTORS,

(United Pf«»» Association.— Copyright.) ; LONDON, 2nd September.

The deputy medical secretary of the British Medical Association, in a letter to the Press, points out though Sir Arbuthnot Lane's resignation from the B.M.A. was only announced oWing to the question arising from the menu incident, it had really occurred previously. Dr. Atkinson, speaking at a Health Society's luncheon, said that tho society now agreed with the British Medical Association that it was undej sirable for doctors to publish photographs or glaring headlines relating to articles .under their names, but that | there was ho objection to doctors publishing educational articles under their own signature in the Press.

A message published yesterday stated? that medical etiquette was -rudely shocked by the appearance of a photograph of 'the famous surgeon Sir Arbuthnot Lane upon the menu cards of a chain, of prominent tea shops. This was the outcome of Sir Arbuthnot Lane's writ-' ing an article on athletes' diet in his capacity of president of the new Health Society. This wag printed on the back of the menu cards,' with a photograph of the writer, supplied unknown to him. Following a complaint he received upon the subject, Sir Arbuthnot Lane rosigned' his membership of the British Medical Association, expressing regret that he should have been unwittingly involved in an incident against the eitquette of the profession.