DOCTORS GLORIFIED
B.M.A. CONFERENCE ADDRESS. “'Hie general practitioner is glorified as something of a superman an anatomists and lecturers as , Enemies No. 1 and No. 2 by medic 1 students,” said Professor R. J - jf oh " stone, professor of gynaecology Queen’s University, Belfast, m his p - sidential address to the annuM meeting of the British Medical Association “Tho specialist must know almost everything about liis subject and ie general practitioner something abo, almost every subject. He must diagnose without the skilled help the specialist commands and carry out treatment with makeshift appliances and amateur nursing. “His responsibility is greater than the specialists. He is a court o 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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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 210, 5 August 1937, Page 6
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156DOCTORS GLORIFIED Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 210, 5 August 1937, Page 6
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