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MEDICINE
THE POINTS OF THE PROFESSION
A REVIEW
[Continued from Yesterday]
THE CHINA MAIL,
absorbed.
of much value to all medical men Regulations and other relevant and women. It embodies a great provisions. It would have been deal of advice on professional con- Strange indeed if a messure so duct in general), on medico-legal far-reaching and so caplex: had difficulties of common occurrence; not brought about great changes and on the relations between doc in the conditions of general prac¬ tor and patient and one doctor and tice, with some detriment to the another,
freedom of the individual doctor. General Practice.
On the other hand, there is gen The recent decline is an ad-
aral agreement that, the panel General medical practice has system, has provided a better vantage, because the excessive entries of students during the hitherto been, and still is, the desservice than existed under the ald post-war inflation period, if they tination of the great bulk of stud-"club" arrangements, though it is had gone on long enough, must ante. It is estimated that three by no means as complete or as have led to overstocking of the quarters at least of those who pass effective as it might be made. out of the medical schools, become Some of its worst faults have profession. In the past six yearsfamily doctors" sooner or later. been removed through the efforts the numbers of new practitioners have greatly exceeded the usual The work is onerous and the pay of the Insurance Acts Committee pre-war figure of eleven hundred too often inadequate; but there of the British Medical Association, or so. Registrations in 1922 num-life rich in human interest, and the insurance practitioners in all are compensations, for it is a full which represents the interests of bered 1,983; they rose to 2,482 in 1929, and to 2,798 in 1924; in many of the very best students, negotiations with the Ministry of 1925 they were 2,570. in 1926 now as formerly, choose general Health. "Under the Act as it 2,120, and last year 1,941. The practice as a career. Their work stands, much more could have large additions to the profession is of the utmost value to the pub- been done, and should be done, in in recent years brought the total lic and the profession, because it the matter of wise propaganda number of names in the "Medical sets a standard for the branch of directed to the means of preserv Register up to 53,789 at the end medicine in which the generality ing health and of preventing dis of 1927. This is nearly ten thou-of students sooner or later become ease; but, taking the Act in gen sand more than the figure for
eral, with ita, many, inherent ad- This field of professional life is ministrative difficulties, it can be 1917, and fourteen thousand more than that for 1907. There has usually entered in one of three said that the major provisions are been no corresponding increase of house, put up a piste, and wait for tively implemented. But the de ways. The newcomer may take a being sympathetically and effec population in the British Isles work to come to him; he may buy gree of success so far attained in during the samé decennial! periods, and the ratio of doctors the goodwill of a practice render-itself calls for further and fuller ed vacant by retirement or death; dévelopments, which in due course to inhabitants is therefore much higher now than ever before. It or he may become a partner in an should be equally available for all is true that the scope of medical established firm. The first is insured persons regardless of practice has widened considerably more risky than the second, and their membership of any particu-
the second than the third. A well-lar society." in the meanwhile, and many fresh managed partnership of three or Consultant & Specialist Practice openings for professional work
more has this advantage over have followed the growth of single-handed practice, that it The term consulting practice diagnostic, curative, and preven- allows each partner leisure for re may be said to comprise in ordin tive methods, and the rapid de creation and for keeping up with ary usage the work of the general velopment of administrative medi-
the progress of medicine. Suc medical consultant or "pure phy- cine. But there must be bounds to the legitimate medical needa cess in private practice demands sician" and that of the general a great deal of knowledge beyond surgical consultant or operating. of the community. The new re- gulations of the General Medical that gained at the medical schools, surgeon Most general consul and hence a man is more likely to tants, whether medical or surgi. Council, though they were drawn be accepted as a partner, or to do cal, are specialists in some branch up for another purpose, have tend well on his own account, if he has of their practice, and most special. ed so far to keep the entries of already some experience as an fats are consultants in the sense students within manageable assistant or deputy. A good that their work largely comes to limits, and so to maintain a many general practitioners. there. them through the recommenda balance between supply and de-fore, begin their work as assist. tion of other practitioners, with mand:
ants, and of these few find cause whom they act (or should act) in On the whole, it may be said to regret the time spent in learn a consultative capacity. In any that, for those of good average ing the ropes under the eye of an case, whoever holds himself out intelligence and physique who are experienced senior. As the cir as one or the other or both must not afraid of works, the prospect cumstances of general practice be assumed to have knowledge in medicine to-day is quite favary much from place to place, it and skill above the ordinary, vourable. The medical profession is usually best to serve this post. of this country is not overstock graduate apprenticeship under ed. Its numbers are still badly conditions resembling those to be distributed, though perhaps not met later. An all-round know a comprehensive knowledge both quite so much so as at the begin-ledge of practical medicine, aur of medicine and surgery, and it ning of the century.
gery, and obstetrics should, if possible should have practised for After Registration: Choice of a possible, be supplemented by skill some years before starting on his
Career
in some special branch, of work, own line of work. Intensive study The student, having passed all and the experience gained when is required of those who aim at his tests and placed his name on holding clinical assistantships or becoming consultants or speciak the "Medical Register," becomes a
resident posts (not necessarily in ists, and they should look upon member of the profession and teaching hospitals) will prove in-hospital posts, especially where there are students to be taught, assumes the privileges and res- valuable in general practices. ponsibilities that go with legal
The fundamental value of the as a rival part of their higher qualification. But after a quali- work done by the general practi- education. For them, as for prac. fication to practise has been ob- tioner is better appreciated now titioners of all branches, Buccess tained there is usually a period than in the past, and it is more will depend in the long run, not of transition from the stage of the fully recognised that an efficient only upon mental gifts, special ex- medical student to that of the medical service must be based perience, and capacity for hard established medical practitioner. upon the skill and devotion of the work, Lut on the possession of This time may be put to the great family medical attendant, work those qualities which inspire con est advantage by serving as ing in close touch with the aims fdence both in patients and in house-physician, house-surgeon, and methods of preventive medi- colleagues. Moreover, since the or casualty officer in a hospital, cine. Under the conditions of to consultant or the specialist can by working as assistant, or locum day his place in the community is scarcelye hope at first to pay his tenens in private practice, or by more important than ever before. way by consulting work or by the seeing something of the world as Private practitioners now. take a exercise of his specialty, he must a ship surgeon. As a prelimin-wider view of their duty towards either have private means, or be ary to practice of whatever kind, the environment and the habits of prepared, by teaching or in others. nothing is so useful as a year or their patients than in former Ways, to make ends meet. If more spent in junior hospital ap- times, when they were almost while in preparation for his life pointments; and all who can wholly concerned with developed work he can undertake some piece afford the time should look upon disease in individuals. The doc of research bearing upon his clini. the holding of such posts as a tor of the future will come more cal studies, this is most advisable, most profitable investment. and more to study early disturb and there is much to be said for If his mind is not made up ances of function-the threshold spending some months in visits to already, the young practitioner of disease and the maintenance foreign clinics. has now to consider in which of bodily and mental health in branch of the profession he can varying conditions of life and put his abilities to the best use work. While this is all to the The choice is very wide. Among good, it cannot be denied that the great variety of paths open to encroachments on private medical those with different tastes and practice are: perpetually being talents are general practice in made, bere a little and there a
To be a competent specialist a man should possess, as a back ground to his expert attainments,
[To be
Continued.3
town or country: Government ser little, i under the auspices of the PONTIAC"
vice at home or abroad, including State and of voluntary bodies: If of course, the medical branches of such inroads threatened only the the Navy and Army and Air material interests of the Indivi Force, and the IMS public dual doctor they might have to be health appointments and other ad endured, like much else that goes ministrative or official posts; in on in the name of progress; but It stitutional work, such as that of is not difficult to show that in the the mental hospital and Poor Law long run many of them must medical services and special react against the pr
work in scientific research and also.| ther
teaching, or in one of the many vate, medt
subdivisions of clinical medicine from the® and surgery.^^› Most of these iciales requirem careers are discussed in some de~ tail in the later sections of this Educational Number, but a Yew words may be safd- here about general practice and the work of a consultant or spec
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