THE MacKENZIE CASE.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1925, Page 4

THE MacKENZIE CASE.

THE JUDGMENT. NO BELIEF IN SYSTEM USED AUCKLAND. March 30. The motion by the New Zealand Medical Board was that the name of Henry Dftndas Mackenzie of Auckland, should he removed from the medical register of New Zealand on the grounds that he had been guilty of infamous conduct in a professional respect, inasmuch as. for the past four years or thereabouts, he had practised an alleged scientific method of diagnosis and treatment, known as the Abrams treatment. in such a manner as to show that lie could not have honestly believed that that method of treatment and diagnosis was a reliable or useful one, in the eases in which lie employed it.

“Dr Mackenzie was not charged with professional misconduct because ot the Abrams system of diagnosis and treatment.” said Mr Justice lleidman. “His conduct was up for review because it was alleged that lie prtretised it in a particular manner. “The charge was that lie practised it without any honest beliel in its reliability or utility. In other words, the hoard submitted that the evidence it lmd placed before the Court proved that a medical practitioner, whose practice was .large and highly remunerative, had adopted and used as part of Ids professional methods a system in which he had no hone-t belief, and that accordingly he had deceived the persons who sought his prniosstou- ;,| assistance, and took Irom them a fee lor services which lie could not have believed were of any value.” ]n the course of his judgment his Honor said he believed Dr ’William )’•- tit (a witness for Dr Mackenzie) to he a perfectly sincere believer in the Abrams system. He relied upon his medical training in the course ol his practice, and depended for diagnosis upon information gained tu me course of clinical examination in conjunction uitli the Abrams blood test. “This was not the story told of .Mackenzie. Ihe weakness ot Dr Betti t’.s evidence was his relusa! to submit the system to a test. II the .system were found, a fair test would not destory its worth.” lie could only conclude that those who refused a trial had no confidence in the system. If there existed tin's lack of confidence, then it went a long way to prove that. Dr .Mackenzie ill his own mind must have doubted the soundness ol the system. From a review of the lads. Mr Justice Hcrtlman added, he drew the interna e that Dr Mackenzie hail no

honest belief in the usefulness and reliability of the system that he practised. If n man. in the practice ol his profession, adopted and used a. system in which he had no belief, then lie accepted reward for services which he must believe to he of no value. 11 he had led the public to believe that the system in which lie had no liiith could detect disease then he was not acting honestly and in good faith, and brought himself within the Words of the Statute and was guilty of “infamous conduct in n professional lcsp'-eet

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