Show GOVERNOR KILLS I OSTEOPATH BILL BILLI 1 I v Yo M II Gr of Df Public Safety I SHOULD SHOUD 1 PASS P EXAMINATION SI 1 o TO O no an OX OAD J Welte WU vetoed the tM bin bill 1 afternoon That be 14 did dido I so o was U ao DO o great t to it lu Its V I nef ia In his ate m the tM tb de do declared I the tM cl nc of ol trotting treating tread baa wu waa of aach a high ht character that intending practitioner wile who could e not Mt ot co an nam a as to fun faD should not DOt be bs allowed to practice At the close of hl message e ehe he be declared that if tIM the th present p raw IW could be bs amended elided eo o a U to prove pros Male ua factory to oit a as en at as doctors doctora docto of ot o be hi would t be beto ii 4 to t ap an u u r oa 0 th tile tbs medical board TIM Tb usual attempt was waa mad to puss pass th the bill bitt oven the governors or veto but only ft five senator u ton voted te In th tk taM alive aUve Barber Buses C P Larsen Lanen end ncI Whitmer Following Folio te Is th tile thu veto e eTo To the th Senate I 1 herewith return without my approval senate te bill No m titled entitled An AD act aft de declaring dewine wine claring the practice of osteopathy not DOl to tobe tobe tobe be th the practice of medicine udDe and aad surgery within the meaning g of ef title ft revised statute of Utah UN Ja sad aad regulating the ther I practice I of osteopathy in to 1 tie the 1 0 state it fe of r L Utah tah The of human life ure whether by means meana mca of looking to the prevention of disease br hr by means calculated to cure cured dl d ase already established will be ad admitted without wit bout question to be bs the proper i of professional ambition as u well veil as al alth the th highest humanitarian desire of legis legislative enactment In both thus these directions the state stat a of Utah by vigorous laws Jaws and aDd by strict requirements aa to the quality of medical practitioners stands well in Ie the forefront of enlightened and progressive v Only through conviction should we w von ven ture t ure to weaken in la any an degree d those these t safe safeguards guards which experience x and observation have ha proved provet o be beneficent and suds satis satisfactory factory I r Is Whatever the term or Of nature ef of the tenets t of the tb particular school bOOI which thin bill alms alma to recognise its ae practice must it seems to me e be a branch of ot the science of ot medicine After all nil the tha physician of whatever school Of or assignation has hu to deal with the same ae Y the same conditions the laws la of cause canse and effect in health L and nd disease dI All AU practitioners may M not DOt nave have the same knowledge and the same skill yet our statutes have I ve wisely pro PlO l hied as a matter of ot public policy polley and fl protection that a certain amount of skilled knowledge aU all of them roust must have baYe haveIt It requires considerable honesty In any practitioner ner to admit that a case in hand is I beyond his powers po His Uia training may y be limited his pretensions modest but butth the th results of his hla lark lack of knowledge or orthe orthe orthe the consequences of ot his bla weakness in l re refusing fusing to concede it are equally danger clauer OU OUM u The natural treatment of any an phYs pays it kal al disorder is la necessarily rny determined b by a 1 diagnosis d of a case cue a of or o first and absolute importance Te To T do dothe dothe dothe the wrong thing by performing dangerous manipulation or to do nothing at nil all 1 Cither It t hr of which rouTers courses te Is easily open to the be equally fatal tal The peril te ta DOt not lessened if It the physician per haps b by happy happ accident or coincidence has haa discovered dl the true condition JUfa LIf PI tale He ma m be manly enough to to suggest t proper JJ et remedies or reckless enough to attempt treatment t of his hi own on altogether without reason or applicability or indifferent enough aa as already suggested to do nothing noW at all au in I 1 n either cue case the tb patient suffers soften the rink Is la not human life Ute too precious to to b boo thus trifled with The foregoing suggests suggest that the treat treatment ment of or disease diN should not be beto permitted to be a matter of mere N experiment and as an the authority te to practice presupposed an acquaintance I with the 1 science as recognised by all the tle regular r any knowledge short hort of that should be deemed I Insufficient I consider it t t unfair and dangerous therefore fore to al allow 1 low Iw the alae th adherents of or osteopathy or of ot any other school to practice without un WI deigning the ordinary tests tNt to which other ath practitioners have to submit The he may go 0 as far aa as his him talents talent and andI inclination I may carry him and the pub pubS S lit Iii be he benefited by his advancement but hilt the fundamental and aad essential knowl knowledge edge dge which every physician ought to f cannot safely tely be waived or ig Ia nored S Safeguard Swept Away 7 Science Is I progressive ve advancement nt cannot be stayed in the art of healing aMt of al Ii il and the dogmatism of 01 dis cUa disputants di whether In medicine or anything else must soon yield to the th light lIc t of truth S and reason Whatever merit osteopathy may have ba ve will assuredly find recognition The present contention te Is that In the tM bill before bt fore me the necessary requirements requirement require and S safeguards with which the law surrounds UMa UrI the physically afflicted are thrown down and swept ept away To this I am unwilling to consent No practitioner of this school schoolS S who possesses H the qualifications tlona required f t the practitioners of ether other schools needs needa touch a law I deem III It unwise to enact It U for the benefit m of those who have riot not those qualifications qualification Whenever an au who leek to engage in ID the healing heaU art an shall hU shalle hUf e f equally recognized as a competent under he hr regulations r iwo now generally established Ua S eer One ne medical tew lw will be sufficient This S complied with It would give me in incer r pleasure to name as a a member mem of r vir IIII state board of ot medical examiner an adherent of the very school in ID whose be ha half hail tit of Io I prop eed 0 HOER M K WELLS Governor Govenor |