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_By College of Surgeons Head ,
. The medical profession has always tried to clean its
own house and from now on it plans to do an even better T
job. It would ~-prefer to clean its house rather than have
some group of slaymen do iit.
At the recent meeting of the’ _ _ _
College of Surgeons, their presi- ;_0‘;"°;?:£;“l0€°?h;’:nuggxcikggi
dent, Dr. Fred W. Rankin, had had enough training and cX_
the courage t° _   perience to be what they would
Spféek °¤'° ;,_ ,  :, ,  ga ,:, _ .—l; ¤;i _le‘ %T_lE§;:f$El like to new g .
agamst P‘?°" A,::   . Dr. Rankin deplored the pass-
"‘“d ““°th‘°?1   ing cf so many of the old-time
Sm"g€"Y· H6 ls   general practitioners. “The cor-
a Past Presb   nerstone of . medical practice
d E Dt Qi the   ..,;   `e.;i’ll` Q should still be this type or physi-
~ A m;° I` 1 C a n   °`__   `Q   cian, who represented at his best,
Meqlcal Asso`     integrity, moral character, self;
ciation an d,  __ lessness and willingness to serve
during Thi? Last   with or without remuneration,
war, was chief   ::‘   ,»‘.‘‘ *   and without consideration of his
consultant in       ;i_i_r;e or comfort, because he was
surgery to the       dedicated to the service of his
Army. »·   iii    fellow men." i .
SOA; Shep i?g°‘,;. ,,,_ w_ c_ A,,,,,, nur, INTERESTINGLY, nan-
,Sm.gE0nS prob-_   - ———. §1n, went oz£lhtor1?5;; that fwhile
, · · e admires eso ype _o (gen-
?:b:V{$;g 21;;;, th; agiiggstlglig eral practitioner, he is not`naive`"
blamed his Own group fo} not enough to think that we ought. to
d . t t t t go back to his type of medicme
Omg more 9 ry ° S Op poor and ask family doctors to do 85
Surglcal pmcl1°¥€S' . per cent of all the work that has
. Many pbyslclans Wm Say that to be done. No man, no matter
m,th€u` city n° p°°1`_ Surgery IS how brilliant a brain he has, and
being d°n€· but he thinks It b€t* no matter how fast he can read
ter to "face the facts frankly and and Study, can ever leatn va;H’h€
honest1y." "Let us admit · that meds to know. even mi;me.sp€_
there are menm our profession- cm1ty_ .,,  ;_ , 
fortunately their number is small mt- C-"§7Q,j   
——who practice division of fees--  
who do ghost surgery (perform   ‘·=‘'  
an operation for another man  
who gets all the credit)——who  
perform unnecessary operations,   V
and who charge exorbitant fees  
for theirservices. The number, `   
I say, 'is small, but even one
malefactor reflects directly and
unfavorably upon us all."
AS RANKIN WENT ON T0 ,
say, few surgeons are willing to T
say this sort of thing because
immediately they are attacked by
some of their confreres. These
confreres make it look as if the
surgeon who spoke out against
abuses was the criminal. ` · V
` As Rankin said, "Actually A "
our trouble in medicine is that 7 “
we haven’t enough really well- 1
trained specialists who can do ..