SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS.
POSITION AT AUCKLAND MOSPITA L. (Press Association Telegram.) AUCKLAND, July 7. At a meeting of the Hospital Board a discussion took place in regard to the shortage of doctors owing to so many medical men offering their services to the Defence Department-. The chairman stated that at- the present- time there were only two junior doctors in residence at the hospital, instead of five, while the two who remained had also volunteered for service at the front. There was a danger, lie understood, of the 28 medical students going up for. the next examination at Dunedin University being absorbed for military service and. accordingly, lie had telegraphed to the Inspector-General of Hospitals placing before him the hospital’s need of juniors. There was also a need for doctors to administer anaesthetics.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3976, 8 July 1915, Page 6
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133SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3976, 8 July 1915, Page 6
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