Medicine and Pathology
Medicine and Pathology
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医学和病理学
DOI:
10.1136/bmj.2.2034.1768-a
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发表时间:
1899
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W. S. Lazarus
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作者:
W. S. Lazarus
THE CONCILIATION BOARD AND MEDICAL AID ASSOCIATIONS. SIR,-When in May last the General Medical Council pro-mounced a pious opinion about scandalous advertising you allowed me to utter a protest in the columns of the BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, whereupon I was assured by one member of the Council that the Council had declared advertising to be infamous conduct, while another wrote to me that expressing the opinion was but a preliminary warning that the November session would declare this same offence to be pro-fessionally infamous. This shows that one memberof the Council actually did not know what he had assisted the Oouncil to do, while the other could not forecast what the Council would do. For November has come and gone, and the Council has failed to do the only thing it can legally and logically do, namely, declare advertising and canvassing infamous conduct. At the present moment advertising receives pious condemnation from the General Medical Council, but only in relation to medical aid associations. Mark thelogic and fairness:" You may not lend yourself to these practices if you are a medical aid association doctor, though we have nothing tosay on this subject if you are not so connected." Once more let me urge our Association to have no hand or part in this Conciliation Board until its scope is defined. First, let the friendly societies agree with the contention that they have no right to own and carry on a medical aid association, and then we will talk to them about a Conciliation Board to regulate the ethics of their relation to the medical profession. The special pleading of Dr. Glover should be ignored. The suggested possession of information will not blind your readers, for they have ample" information," often gleaned at first hand andby hard experience, and they have long ago formulated their views on this question. I am assuredly right in asserting that no material fragment of information has come to light that was not embodied years ago in my original complaints of this cancer eating into the vitals of the profession of medicine. The researches of the Committee of the General Medical Council have succeeded in doing one thing, and, as far as I can make out, one thing only, and that is in confusing a very simpleproblem.-I am, etc., Leamington, Dec. IIth. LESLIE PHILLIPS.MEDICINE AND PATHOLOGY. SIR,-Since in his letter on the above subject in the BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL of October gth Dr. Herringham has referred to my Manual of General Pathology, I trust that you will permit me to reply to him. The proposition that Dr. Herringham puts forward, shortly expressed, is that pathology is" a special bit of medicine." and therefore should be taught where it is allowed that medi-cine generally should be taught, namely, in hospitals. Granted the premiss I will allow that the conclusion is reasonable enough. But though I feel that pathology in all its branches will best be taught at hospitals I am convinced that