THE KENTUCKY KERNEL
men. Thirty years ago we had too
many 'family doctors.' Now we have
too few. General practice is now
VOCATIONAL
having to depend upon the older gen
GUIDANCE
eration. The average age of Michi
years
o gan physicians is fifty-tw- o
Medicine needs recruits.
WANT TO BE A PHYSICIAN?
"But the difficulty lies in the mat
Talk It Over With "Doctor Will" ter of training. The high cost of
Mayo Through Esca G. Rodger
training in time and money is mak
ing medicine 'an aristocra'tic profesJ
This article on Vocational Guidance sion,' eliminating young men of mod
is reprinted from the October issue of erate means. This shouldn't be so,
We need country doctors. We need
ihe American Boy.
"No, the field of medicine is not doctors for general practice in cities
"Students who are bright onough to
overcrowded.
We need many more
physicians, not specialists but gen take up the study of medicine should
get started in medical school earlier
eral practitioners."
You're listening to one of the most than they do under the present sys
able surgeons in the world, Dr. Wil- tern. I'd like to see a reduction in the
liam James Mayo, the older of the time requirements that' would lessen
the time spent in preparation and
two
Mayo brothers,
gepn and chief of staff of the Mayo thus lessen the costs. We could make
Clinic
at Rochester, Minnesota. such a reduction and still turn out
general practitioners.
You've traveled many miles to reach
Rochester, and you're talking with Dr. One and probably two years might be
Mayo in a finely dignified office'in the taken out of the grammar and high
course, and there is no reaheart of the great brick building that schoolwhy
students entering medical
houses the Clinic Yet you feel, some- son
"their physical
how, much as though, needing help, school, at the height of
you had dropped on the doorstep of and mental activities, in a word that
is, functioning on the twelve months'
an understanding neighbor.
That's "Doctor Will." He forgets basis, should not be able to work the
all fame and formality in friendliness, year around and finish their medical
course in three years. Specialties or
1
and makes you do it, too.
Everyone staff," townspeople, pa- research studies should be taken up as
tientsspeaks of Dr. Mayo as "Doc- postgraduate work."
tor Will." A genuine tribute, that Well, youreflect,"even if you your
title. It shows the place he holds in self probably won't profit through any
people's hearts. It explains something reduction in requirements, you're glad
to know where Dr. Mayo "stands, for
of his success as a surgeon.
He's still boyish, this man who he represents some of the best thought
made his name years ago. Smiles in the country. Perhaps some day,
easily.
Carries no excess weight. whether or not you become a physician, you'll have a chance to throw
Looks oh life with a kind of unconscious zest. You like his judicious your influence on the right side in this
matter of requirements ;in medical
enthusiasm as he says:
"Yes, we need general practition training.
Meanwhile, if you want to be a
ers. The country is ready to offer a
warm welcome to the right young doctor, you'Jl have to face require- --

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ments as they are.

At any rate, if physicians, lose intimate contacts.
there was no pronely eauioned lnhor. the courage of a physician who was
average length of human life.
And in the same article: "Medicine latory near. Dr. Bralow wantpd tn moved by the "burning spirit of inFame That Satisfies '
something!
Has a general practitioner in the in the great war was triumphant. bring live flukes to the United States vestigation," and didn't hesitate to
But how can you tell whether or country or in the small town any For the first time in the history of to study. .But our immigration laws take dangerous, disagreeable chances.
not you have it in you to succeed as chance of making a name for him- wars, the number of deaths from cas (wouldn't allow him to bring them in
But this won't do.
Your pencil
ualties was greater than the number me oouy oi a sick Chinese,
a physician?
self?
must go on.
of deaths from disease. In the
So he brought them in his own
Dr. Mayo shakes his head ruefully
Yes.
War, one man died of (body. Took some thirty of the re
when you ask him. "I don't know
(CONCLUDED
Here's an example. . Since 1881,
IN NEXT WEEK'S
enough about abilities and your Dr. Cyrus Thompson has been prac- gunshot wounds to thirty who died pulsive little flukes from the body of
PAPER)
a patient, put them into a tumbler of
you ticing medicine in Jacksonville, North of disease.
fundamental interest to help
Research work played an active water, and drank them down.
there.
Carolina, a place of- 656 inhabitants,
University of Chicae-Told no one no use worrying peoPrinces
"And my own experience won't help according to a reasonably recent re- part in those accomplishments. It
helped to prevent no end of hu- ple. Came to the United States,
you. Neither my brother Charles nor port.
let Tarhata Hiram, daughter of the Sul
Dr. Thompson has lived an has
man misery. But there are still many his flukes grow and multiply in his tan of Sulu and eraduate. has sur
I ever considered any work but sur unusually happy, satisfying" life, and
gery. We come of a long line of a life of outstanding service. You medical problems unsolved. Research body for some little time, finally pre- rendered to tradition and entered the
sented himself at Johns Hopkins Uni- harem of Datu Tahill. a hieh Sulu
English surgeons one of our ances will get a partial record, just bare workers are wanted.
The experts there gladly dignitary. The princess returned from
But they must be the right sort. versity.
ters was a surgeon in the Napoleonic facts, by looking up his name in
helped him rid his body of the para- the United States with bobbed hair.
And the right sort is rare.
wars. Our father came to this coun "Who's Who in America."
try from England and eventually, aft
Research is a continued growth of sites and make a careful study of short skirts, and rolled hose. She
Dr. Thompson served six years as
is wife No. 4 of the harem.
er experience as an army surgeon, country superintendent of health. He the divine spark of investigation that them.
Eventually Dr. Barlow traced the
settled down to practice here in has served North Carolina as a mem- is in every human being. As a rule,
Rochester. As boys, my brother and ber of her house of representatives that spark burns most brightly in parasite back to its breeding place in
Machine guns.
mins.
I took care of his horses and his office as a state senator, and as her secre- boyhood.
But occasionally, though a species of land snail that th rjiir,- - and regimental colors of the R. O. T.
and got ready to become surgeons tary of state. In 1912, he was offered rarely, it keeps on glowing in the ese eat freely. The rest was a mat- kj. oi tne university of Iowa were
We never thought of doing anything the nomination for governor of North man, urging him on irresistibly. The ter of notifying the Chinese.
decoration features of the military
else."
Thousands of lives saved through ball.
Carolina, but declined it. In 1920, he man who keeps that burning spirit of
Fascinating facts, but as Doctor served as president of the Seaboard investigation is the specialist in re
Will says they can't help you reach Medical Association, an influential search patient, persistent, enthusi- Greatly needed
a decision.
And what he tells you organization in which membership is astiCf indomitable.
limited to physicians residing in small Exceedingly rare.
next holds scant comfort.
"Burning spirit of investigation!"
places.
Planning To Prevent Misfits
And all this says nothing, directly, The phrase halts your
It seems that a faculty committee of the men, women, "and children who pencil. It makes you think of. a story
of the University of Minnesota is have
found in Dr. Thompson a won you've heard about Dr. C. H. Barlow,
working now on plans to help young derfully wise physician, the finest an American medical missionary in
Driv-It-Ur-Speople find out for what work they're kind of personal friend though one China. The story
.
has been told, you
best suited.
Dr. Louis B. Wilson, could fill a book with fascinating stor understand, in the Uarlow Monograph,
director of the Mayo Foundation for ies about the individual human prob which can be obtained from Johns
Medical Education and Research, is lems he has helped solve.
DODGES
Hopkins University.
In layman's
a keenly interested member of this
That's the record that one small language, the story goes this way:
CHEVROLETS
committee Dr. Wilson has seen all town physician has made. There are
FORDS
Dr. Barlow' found that several
too many misfits in medicine, knows many other inspiring records.
thousand Chinese in a single province
there are many misfits in other fields
Are men needed for research work were afflicted with a dropsy-lik- e
disof work. He and his fellow commit- in medical fields?
ease caused by intestinal parasites
tee members and other experts in difYes! Humanity needs them. Med "flukes,"
These flukes referent sections of the country are ical descoveries' of the past have re- sembled exceedingly small, exceedingplanning to prevent misfits.
Some lieved much suffering. Consider just ly repulsive oysters.
day, doubtless, as the result of such three of four important achievements.
only.
Unless the body of the afflicted
planning, practically Anaesthetics and antiseptics have Chinese could be
freed of flukes, he
every boy will be able to get his abil made modern surgery possible. Tu- died within two or tfiree years.
The
ities and interests scientifically tested berculosis, yellow fever, and typhoid individual could be cured if he could
and analyzed and can learn from the have been brought under control.
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be brought to the hospital, but the
returns his chances of success in a
Much has been done in the last fifty hospital could take care of only a
given profession. But only in com or sixty years alone. Dr. Mayo says limited number of patients.
234 E. MAIN STREET
paratively few places can you now in an interesting article in the North
The way to control
disease was
get reliable, scientific help of that American Review for February, 1920: to trace the parasite the its breeding
to
kind.
"Since the close of the Civil War, places, find out from which food stuffs
L. W. CaDey, Mgr.
So that's that. Of course, no real fifteen years has been added to the the Chinese were getting flukes. But
ly reliable thinker wants to. offer yon
shortshot judgment on your abilities.
And you don't want it. Friendly ad
vice based on mere guessing can't
help you find yourself. But there's
an old family friend, a physician, who
knows you well. You can ask him
to estimate your chances of success
You can go to the pubin medicine.
TODAY and SATURDAY
lic library and dig into books and
SATURDAY
magazines that tell about the dePOMPADOUR
mands and requirements in the physician's everyday work. Of course, in
BALLET
comparison with that fellow of the
Open
Featuring
future who can get his abilities test
NORREE
ed, you're handicapped in coming to
in
With
good
a final decision, but at least you'll use
8 ALBERTINA
RASCH
your head you'll keep your eyes
SOLO DANCERS
open.
and
With that you have to leave the
ANOY RICE, Jr.,
i
question of natural abilities, the queswith
SUNDAY
tion that even a man like Dr. Mayo
We
But he can
can't answer offhand.
delicr- -.
EVELYN GROVES
give you much general information
"ALTARS OF
that will help you in deciding whether
VodviFs
"ious
occason.
you'll be justified in continuing to
becoming a physithink seriously of
MAE MURRAY
2 OTHER ACTS 2
cian.
CONWAY TEARLE
and
You ask about training, different
CHARLES RAY in
kinds of medical work, rewards. Get
WEDNESDAY
Get,
thought - provoking answers.
"SWEET ADELINE"
too, a chance to discuss these things
JACK HOLT
with another expert.
in
"You must meet Dr. Wilson," Doc
SUNDAY
ZANE GREY'S
tor Will says enthusiastically, and
TOM MIX in
jVIRS. WEBBER
CANARY COTTAGE
you soon discover that- - meeting Dr.
"MAN OF
BOILED"
Wilson is a rarely pleasant privilege,
and much like meeting a mine of inm in
formation. He knows boys and men
and medicine as few know those three
in combination.
You pack your mind full of the
things Dr. Mayo and Dr. Wilson tell
you, and after you've left them, you
seize the first opportunity to jot down
some of the most important points.
of
Later, you expand that line-u- p
points into something like this:
Training? How Long?
The general practitioner must put
in a minimum of six years, which includes his preliminary college work,
his medical school course, and a year
in soma hospital as an interne. Six
years is the minimum; the average
length of time spent in training after
graduation from high school is nine
years.
The specialist usually puts in thir
teen years in training before he begins his special work.
roughly
Money cost of training
estimated?
From $800 to $1,000 a year.
Any chance of working one's way?
Nearly 80 per cent of the
Yes.
boys studying medicine at the University of Minnesota are making all
or part of their expenses. About 60
per .cent are making all their expenses. They have brains and the willingness- to work.
They must have fighting spirit, too
a sort of gallant determination.
ALL STYLES AND KINDS
YELLOW OR OLIVE
Dr. Will spoke of the story that has
SPECIAL PRICES
SNAP FASTNERS
been handed down about Sir Morell
TO
THESE SOLD AT $5.75
Mackenzie, a famous British special
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
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ist in diseases of the throat and nose,
the man who in 1863 founded the
Throat Hospital in London. .As a
young medical student he frequently
became so sleepy before he had fin
ished studying that he was afraid of
GYMNASIUM
dropping off over his books. So, the
SLICKER
BROADCLOTH
h
plank
story goes, he lay on a
to study. You grin, but the stay
with-i- t
spirit of that tired student
will stick to your mind.
WERE
ON
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VALUES
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Will a young man be making a
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AND
In fact, some
Not necessarily.
UP
authorities believe that, taking inlo
consideration all the rewards and sat
isfactions of life, the family doctor,
on the average, now has better op
portunities than becoming a special
ist.
The general practitioner need not
invest so jnuch in training as the
specialist invests. A saving there, for
the general practitioner, of from four
to six good years.
Not all specilists make enormous
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