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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1955, *
Canadian Medical And Hospital Busy Week
Practice May Be Changed
Ottawa, Nov. 27.
Far reaching changes may have to be made in Canadian medical and hospital practice following a judgment handed down in the Ontario Supreme Court by Mr Justice A. M. Lebel.
The Court found the practice | illegally.
in my opinion.
of fee-spiliting illegal. Moreover, | rokduct does not amount to a It found that not merely is tee-crime under the criminal code, aplifting contrary to the law but it is true, but it is illegal none |also that Canadian hospitals calt | the lem."
enforce an audit of staff doctors? books to ensure that it is not taking place.
Discipline
The judge acceptext the argu- ment that a mere declarailou ngulist fee-splitting as unethlen would be effective, since that
The case arose after Victoria Hostal at London, Ontario, la troduced a new set of by-laws In 1953, and Arkled another one in 1965 proveling ler att ef had already been taken by
the Canadian Medical Associa the books. The basin of the
lon, "Accordingly," he ruled, Victoria
by-laws WAS the It (the hospilini) must bave Cambus plaa", a set of regu-felt that the now by-law had to lations revised by practitioners have teeth in it. The members In Columbus, Ohio, to eliminate of the medical staff had to fec-splitting.
disciplined, where necessary, the evil could not be combatted." The importance of the decision In the finding that fee-
Declaration
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There is alrendy widespread. sgreement in Canada that. the practice should be forbidden, but there 19 grave dimeulty effecting it. As things standi,
such as specialists, often receive high fees while the Drapery omers <wn
general practitioner who does Victorin Hospital
much of the diagnosis gets com- the audit was in the control ofporatively small ones.
This plan contained a declara-splitting is dednitely illegal and tion against fee-splitung: sehat hospitals can enforce audita schedule of operations ranked into prevent it. order of importance so
mi the number of who might be employed in
to refut Injunctions gul tee-splitting; and pro- vision for an audit of doctors" books. But under it, the audit was in the control of the practi- In the regulations
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CONSIGNEES
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Deillages catge as Das Vammed shakl Laveyed by Mersus Cuidard de Douglas at Tholt - What Dram 10 a.m. vn November 29, 1956, així cistsignees we Frquested to have their repre- smitatives present during the sưPYRY
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27, 1956
invasion of privney
wroulet nuake for digerimination, they argued, to allow public hospitais unreasonable discretion 119 to which doctors might use their fnellilles.
They sold that they powdered and College of Physicians Surgeons to be the proper body to draw up regulations for stoctors, and declared that re- cords of patients were privileged, under the Public Hospitals Act.
The Victoria Hospital, on ila side, inslated that is aetion had been necessary because. In fet, the College of Physicians Surgeons hatt not taken effective action to suppress fee-spiltting.
Control Necessary
und
Control of the audit Was necessary part of controlling fee.spitting. It said, and dented that Et was discriminatory be- Cause any doctor who accepted the rules against tee-splitting and agreed to an nudit would use The Hospital facilities.
In one of the most widely rend judgments in recent Canadian legal history. Mr Justice Lebel! dismissed the action with, costa To the defendants.
Key paragraphs in the Judy- | mrut rend:
"The medical practitioner, ke lawyer or other professional advisers
is bound to see that in no cucumstances will be allow his professional duty to come into confilet with his personal Interests. And when patient consults his physician, he is untitled in equity to see that this
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES ( ndviser has no pecuniary In-
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"If the medical adviser has a pecuniary interest-and a fee- splitting arrangement is such an interest he must disclose it or fall in the discharge of his duty, and by falling that war he retu
MILK BARS OUST PUBS
New Delhi, Nov 27 Milk bars are to replace liquor shops in New Delhi under | the local governinent's prohibi- don scheme.
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The first of a chain of drink and milk bars has been opened by Dr Yudhvir Singh, Dellif's Health Minister. Bottles of cold milk were served free
to the guests. Formerly the
milk bar sid home-browed rum and toddy.
The campaign to open mill: bars is part of the Govern ment's programme to popularise soft drinks. -- Chỉña Special.
Lynx Litter
Port Elizabeth, Nov, 27.
A captive lynx-one of two bred in captivity--has given birth to another litter on the farm Wide Horizon, 23 miles from Port Elizabeth and owned by
Cowboy" Mills, who keeps a private so.
Me
The three lynxes born in Previotim Alttor did not livo; - China-Mall Special.
Very Important
The Victoria Hospital caso, unless reversed. likely to affect hospital practices very drastically, with more and more institutions insisting on compul- nory audits of doctors' books,
The
regardles as 807 important that it will almost certainly he carried at least to the Ontario Court of Appeals and probably to the Supreine Court of Canada-China Mail Special.
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THAT WAS AN AMAZING TRICK WITH THE GUN-~/ HOW DID YOŭ--
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Children Asked To Disclose Home Secrets'
Melbourne, Nov. 27,
Parents of Melbourne children are angered with the Australian Council for Educational Research for asking the school. children a series of questions about their family life, including the marital status of their parents and the age of the family car.
Australia was consting along; meke their living, whether they nicely with Education Week are members of a trade unloa
do- speeches, exhibitions and
and whether the father is monstrations when a rumpus freemason or the mother developed over the 42-polat quiz | member of a club. put to leaving standard students
by the Council.
Some parents and Boine students • and ot cast one member of the Victorian Par- Ilament avere reported to be rhocked or resentful or just hot under the collar over what they regarded as an attempt to peep into the cupboards where family skeletons could be lurk
GOING TOO FAR
Some students refused to answer all the questions; others refused to answer any of them.
One student fold a paper.
"We thought they were
ing. the newly-openta University College of North Staffordshire, she Installed fo mer Brich Broadcasting Corporation Television chief Sir George Barnes as princi- pal of the College, the Is plotured left
acadernie On clothes for the ceremony, right, the Princess is seen as she was dressed on Wednesday to attend
at St the wedding Margaret's Westminster, Lon don, of 30-year-old Mr Peter Ward, younger son of the Esti of Dudley, to 19-year-old Müns Claire Baring-Express Photo,
Cooling Cocktail
Salisbury, Nov. 27. Salt and lime juice, a "cock- tall" well-known to miners in hot climates, gaining popularity on the site of the Zambesi hydro- electric scheme af Kariba.
Most rms operating t the site now issue sall tablets, to the nt working for them, to replace the sult kast la perspiration while working in temperatures well over 100 degrees (Fahrenheit), | China Mall Special.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
IF I CHANGE YOUR CHAIR
INTO A MUSHROOM......
OR YOUR DESK INTO
A FISH-TANK-- NOTHING HAS REALLY
CHANGED,
YOU JUST THINK
IT HAS!
By Mik
By Erale Bushmiller
LAST WEEK I SPILLED SOME HAIR TONIC ON IT
•FRNIA BUSHMILLORS.
By, Frank Robbins
JUST THEN KITTY'S PLANE TAXIES IN FROM
A LANDING NU.
D-BUT THAT'S QUR' PLANE Z WHAT'S IT DOING
BACK HERE
going too far,"
nows-
OTHER QUESTIONS
Other questions Lecluded:
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What is the age and make of the family cart
Do you have a telephone? Do you have a refrigorator? The politician, Mr A.W. Liberal Country Party Taylor, Member of the Victorian Legi Elative Assembly, whose son attend, Melbourne Grammar School, sald that he was sur prised that such a “disgraceful" poll of school-children should be conducted.
Dr W.C. Rødford, Director of
surprise
The parents of three students who had said nothing at home about the questionnaire were surprised to learn from the The politician who had pro- | press that it was going the tested said that he felt he was rounds. doing so for all other parents concerned in the questionnaire. the Research Council, expressed
The official of Irading
that may
parent had suburban girls' school Com- got possession of a copy of the mented "What a hideous ques-
questionnaire, seeing that it was tionnaire. It has a good chance | filled in at school and collected of being sent straight back if it comes out here."
The Australian Counc for Educational Research is an in- dependent all-Australian body sponsoring
condusting educational research work at all levels and assisting in develop- ment calculated to be of value to education.
and
there.
Most surprised of all seems to have been an American, Pro- fessor Ralph Berdie, who as a Fulbright Research Scholar is conducting the "Home Secrets" pot
PROF, SURPRISED
Critics of the questionnaire
Questioned by newspaper re- have asked how education would
porters on the trouble that had be helped by knowing whether
flared up Professor Berdie slow- the parents of a boy or girly shook his head and raid were both alive, whether they "Frankly I am surprised." lived together or are separated or divorced. They are puzzled why researchers want to know parents of students
how the
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FROZEN PEAS TODAY
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He cald that in a similar survey of 40,000 American
children he had heard of only two objections.
"Here we have quizzed more than 1,000 children and I have hat objections from only one, so we figure that one tenth of one per cent doesn't mean much,' ho sald
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The object of the survey, he added, was to find why so many children of high ability not undergoing professional or technical training after reaching high school standard.
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Professor Bondle said that it America It was found that family attitude and cultural background were more portant than economic cond ilona, As the Council for Educational Research was aware that there was a similar problem in Austraila it had sponsored his scholarship to conduct a local survey.
A GAUGE
The reasons for the so-called "secret" questions were to gauge a child's family income bracket and home background. Quee- tions on the source of income were naked to day to goi a dis- Linction between those on pro- forsional tees and wages.
Questions on parents' educa- tion were asked because it had been found that if parents had reached, say, high-school stand- and they liked their children to go one step higher.
There was nothing about
secret
a child's parents being separated as the school would know by the difference in their addresses, he said.
"Back
He did not know that there was anything so secret about a man being a freemason, home," he said, "they rings and things,"
CONFIDENTIAL
wber
Ho added that the children were told that all the informe- tort was confidential. Even their teachers did not see it. The children seemed to enjoy it.
Most of the Information sought had now been gathered. Professor Berdie added, but in view of the criticism he did not know whether the survey would be completed Chine Mail
Special.
HARRISON GETS AXE
menu
Canberra, Nov. 27.
Bir Eric Harrisori, "Attufkalinės.
High Commissiónde ! in London, got the axe hare ni ja presentation, AGA PAREN
'waan astmall / woodais hatchet prevented by members. of the Government parties to „Sir. Eric as he retired, from Ba positions as Loudar, of the Hous
80 of Representativos. N
The late » was giván lh re membrance of his ruthless y plication of the gag and pull- jotino" on the House over