Show Ito form ili ii medical education there is 13 no mini man who fills a moro more important place in tho the community than the family physician ile ha is entrusted not merely with tho the life but bat with the filially family scereta of 0 hit his patient rom the ibe nature ot of the cao ca o men mea aro are often obliged to repose moro trust in him than they ever bestow upon their pastor or their lawyer it follows as a mutter matter ol of course that the tha fatally family physician ought to til bc ba 11 coall of tha highest char acter dmd of broad intelligence un as well as skilled 1 in his bis it to id well to benr in ill mind too that tiou seurh aly the ilia whole membership of the ilo medical pro comes under una this lead herd of 0 tile tho afif family 1 in iii it lew few largo cities citina thora are r c uril und burgeons who havo have no general family practice but devote to frosting same borne ono disease or cities ot of lint bat it is n only in la cities ol of wo sita that specialists can obtain endrigh practice tico to support and even in ili largo large citius alitt uro fire but it a friction of the profession thu rho family physician ii the arno typo of 0 hh culling the specialist is the exceptional except CABO it I 1 ii a ametter of profound concern for tho ilia public to itself what la Is tile the family physician of 0 the tha future likely to bo be tile tha answer to tho the question Is ia tn in bo be found by discovering what kind ot of man the student of 0 to dabio uy ia for cor the men who uru are now graduating will bo be the tha blood find bone of 0 the tha pro lobaina twenty years hence fiction ja ago iu in this way it BOOMS all but curtain certain that the famil family physician ol of the future will bo be III ot nested both as regards general culture collura unil aud in life ilia strictly aru pru tensional lore and painfully detle tont in character this I 1 ia a vury very furious thing to lo bay baand and ought not by any dienna to b junices the weighty facts to sustain such so an assertion asBer tiou lt alst in moo then what tho the facts uro fire the medical ol of today to day il 12 not a liberally tod 1 man tho the words liberally libe liberi rully illy educated wo we give their a moaning a regular courso course of 0 study eludy und and it a bachelors buche lorg degree in ia urta arts or science from soma aoma college collage considerably less than 10 per cent ol of tho the medical students graduated tile the decade from 1870 to 1880 were liberally libern lly elum educated Tid men mail 01 0 the 10 a 00 odd per par cent possibly 10 per coat moro more had had bud lite ho equivalent or 11 ill neatly atly tile the equivalent of 0 a college collage course though they had bad not lickon a degroo lint bat ut at tha ilia bost best not one man who obtains his dip lorai arora our medical schools hns bite anything more than is a common school education and that la ia olton often so BO poor that CAU 1101 write a property properly ipe lloil find well expressed I 1 otter letter A low aw of cr those men man will b by industry und and repair in ia biml time e those defects in their early training and bonomo fairly mild varod men but only it few it dilos not appear that tho the grado ot at is is much higher in ilia ha so culled called regular r schools than in ia the anti and eclectic colleges colle geB whatever pathy the young students elect to follow thoy they fire are pretty much the same bame sort of 0 so ao far as statistics call tell the story atory this is a bad state of affairs but it is not tile worst of tho ilia case A Aina man amay may bo be dollci deficient ont in g janeral on aturo and yet bo be master ol of the prin prim aplas of lite hia own profession mail have an inborn knack of applying thera to tho the CIMIS that ariso in ia his lint bat tho the medical student of today is ia not even well trained io in his newyork is noted for or i its t a excellent medical colleges ool legos but not one or at them rivca gives its ita students un ito adequate training they require only attendance at the lectures daring two seasons eotis ona occupying it a few of the winter months and ani 1 an ej ant leation that is easily passed the student tu ilont who is disposed to work hard and mako the roost most of 0 lis his opportunities can it la is true arno gain a thorough training in in these colleges ard there ura ares many students of this kind but bat tho the stade tit who desires to got his diploma us aa easily ike as possible can got gat it very easily anti and no ono who knows anything any thing ol of students in wy any sort bort ot of school can doubt to which olas the majority belongs tho rho only wit way to 1 ago an institution lot in is not t by looking at tile tho maxi mail mam th that t can be gained in it I 1 by y the diligent batby but by looking at the minimum ml 1 required ed of 0 tile tho lazy thus tested it Is I found a that the best medical schools graduate men with only the most imper tact foot smattering of professional knowl edge this thia net fact in ia acknowledged by the hie host beat medical journals jour nula and the gr I 1 8 tor for a higher duril of roqui requirement qu qui remau rement t aro frequent mud and argent ike iho bellevue Colle college goi of 0 this city gave out laut last year that it would require a three years courso course and a severer examination ot of candidates tor for it iti diplomas but a three mouths months trial of 0 the plau plan so decreased the number of students that the frightened faculty abandoned it if one ol of the most ro rucilla it schools in this country thus tho the truth of our chargo charge and its inability to begin a ro re form is it not timo time that the rho law intervened 7 wo ivo have a law to prevent quacks from practicing medici medicine ae but would not a quack ol of some gomo batra esa peri once b bo a safer bator man to entrust with ones one s ufa life thin than many a now graduate grad d a ate 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