“LEARN FROM HUMANS.”

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1927, Page 4

“LEARN FROM HUMANS.”

LONDON, Oct. 7. “There is no doubt that a change in the training of surgeons is imminent, but it is largely overdue,” said iSir Berkeley Moynilmn (Professor of Chemical Surgery at Leeds University) speaking at King’s College Hospital,

Ho deprecated tbe fact that physiologists were neglecting opportunities for direct research, by trusting too implicitly in tho demonstration of physiological truths by t-bo use of

animals and that surgeons were teaching students only on the dead body when hospital wards enabled the teacher to indelibly implant truths derived from living human beings.

Surgeons, teaching by the former means, developed in the students an intellectual complacency, due to the belief that they had mastered the subject. If surgery were to become tbe instrument of research which he believed it would, and not merely a wonderful craft, then surgeons must have their minds shaped and strengthened bv conflict, on unsettled problems ami not sterilised by montonous exeicises within tbe narrow province of static knowledge.

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