NURSES MORE USE THAN DOCTORS
HEALTH OF THE PA MEDICOS CALLED “TOO LATE” “You will get more value from a well-trained and experienced nurse on the spot than from a doctor, who is only called in occasionally.” ■p|R. ADA PATERSON, Director of School Hygiene, when addressing the conference of Native School Teachers’ Association in Auckland yesterday, recalled the time when she was a subsidised medical officer to a .Maori pa. “It is so long ago that I had almost forgotten it,” she confessed. On on« occasion, declared Dr. Ada, she spent four days persuading a Maori woman to enter hospital. When she did it was, of course, too late. A well-trained nurse, she explained, was of much greater us© to the Maori people. She was on the spot all the time; whereas a doctor was invariably called in only at an emergency and more often than not too late to do any real good.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 257, 20 January 1928, Page 16
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