MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.
DIFFICULTIES OF PROFESSION. REQUEST TO THE LEAGUE. United rrcss Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright BELFAST, July 26. ‘‘The general practitioner Is glorified as something of a superman and anatomists -and lecturers as Public Enemies No. 1 and No. 2 by medical students,” said Professor R. J. Johnstone, professor of gynecology at Queen’s University, Belfast, in his presidential address at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association. “ The specialist must know almost everything about his subject and the general practitioner something about almost every subject,” said the professor. ** lie must diagnose without the skilled help which the specialist commands and carry out treatment with makeshift appliances and amateur “ The responsibility of the general practitioner Is greater than the specialist’s. He is a court of first instance. On his decision, a patient's life may depend. His word may put a man in the dock or send him to the gallows.” The meeting carried a motion asking the League of Nations to provide a special section of its health organisation to deal with war psychology.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20256, 27 July 1937, Page 7
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173MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20256, 27 July 1937, Page 7
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