Show MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT I We find this paragraph in the Omaha Bee Nebraska has again taken another step in advance of her sister states Her state board of health has officially declared that a physician who advertises adver-tises himself is not guilty of unprofessional unpro-fessional conduct The medical world may not accept as final this opinion but it would honor itself if it would submit gracefully to the Inevitable The code of medical ethics has contained nothing more flimsy than the altogether alto-gether senseless provision that a physician physi-cian who advertises his business was a charlatan and not worthy of the respect re-spect of his professional brethren The time has gone by when a physicians ability is measured jsailrely by his devotion de-votion to medical ethics A good phy sician is agood physician whether he advertises himself or not and all the medical codes in the catalogue cannot change this fact There Is most excellent sense The Herald has expressed a similar opinion on this subject several times On what grounds a physician or surgeon can object to putting an advertisement of his business and the place where he is to bee seen professionally in a respectable respect-able newspaper we fail to see If he also refused to hang out his shingle from his office he would be a trifle more consistent But why Dr So andSo Physician and Surgeon should be all right painted on a public sign and all wrong printed in a public journal jour-nal is one of the disorders in medical ethics which we think it would puzzle the best M D to diagnose The medical board of Nebraska have done a rational thing We do not think it will have much effect on the medical fraternity generally Not because be-cause we consider them irrational but because we think they are in the bondage bond-age of society rules and becauseit would cost something to advertize |