Show MEDICAL FAILURES An Authority Says ThreeFourths of Graduates Are Unfitted to Practice That 3000 out of the 4000 graduates gradu-ates turned out by the Medical Colleges Col-leges each year are whollty unfitted to practice medicine and are menaces to the communities In which they settle set-tle was stated by Dr Chester Mayer at the State Board of Medical Examiners Exam-iners of Kentucky at meeting of tho American Medical Associations Committee Com-mittee on Medical Education held In Chicago not long ago Dr Mayer said that only 25 to 28 per cent of the graduates are qualified FlftyelghJ per cent of tho graduates examined in 28 states were refused licenses With few exceptions these failures took a second examination In a few weeks and only 50 per cent of them passed This does not mean that deficiencies deficien-cies in their training wero corrected In those few weeks Dr Mayer said It probably shows that experience showed them what tho test would probably bo and they crammed for the examination Dr W T Gott Secretary of the Indiana Board said The majority of our schools now each their students how to pass examinations ex-aminations not how to bo good physicians phy-sicians At tho session of tho American Medical Association held In Atlantic City In Juno Dr M Clayton Thrush a professor In tho Medico Chi urgica t College in Philadelphia said Many doctors turned out of the Medical Schools arc so Ignorant In matters pertaining to pharmacy that they know nothing about tho properties of tho drugs they prescribe for their patients Dr Henry Beats Jr Pres Ident of tho Pennsylvania State Board of Medical Examiners after scrutinIzIng scrutinIz-Ing tho papers of a class of candl dates for Hcensure said About one quarter of the papers show a degree of Illiteracy that renders the candidates candi-dates for licensure incapable understanding medicine derstanding v A great many more physicians and chemists might be quoted In support of the astounding charge that 3000 Incompetents In-competents arc being dumped onto an unsuspecting public each year What the damage done amounts to can never be estimated for these In sompetents enjoy tho privilege of diagnosing I di-agnosing prescribing or dispensing drugs regarding tho properties ol which they know nothing and then of signing death certificates that arc not passed upon by anyone unless tho coroner Is called in Probably there Is not a grave yard from one end of tho country to the other that does not contain the burled evidences of the I mistakes or criminal carelessness of Incomnetent nlnslclans During tho last year there have been perhaps halt a dozen known cases where surgeons after perform lag operations have sowed up tho incisions In-cisions without first removing tho gauze sponges used to absorb tho blood and In some cases forceps and even surgeons scissors have been left In the wound How many ol these cases there have been where the patient died there Is no means or knowing and comparatively few of the cases where tho discovery Is made In time to sao life become generally gen-erally public Reports from Sanitariums Sanita-riums for the treatment of the Drug Habit show that members of tho medical medi-cal profession are more often treated in these Institutions than members of any other profession and that a majority of the patients excluding the physicians themselves can trace i their downfall directly to a careless physician How many criminal operations are performed by physicians is also a matter of conjecture Operations of this class art unfortunately very frequent In large cities Some gradu ated and licensed physicians of them of supposed many respectability make an exclusive practice of crlm inal medical and surgical treatment Dr Physician henry G Wl nholl > art Coroners s of Chicago estimates tho numher ot fcrlralnnl alterations annu sill Ih r Chicago alone at 38000 How man InalIn1 lIilll > are as when unknown death results tho cause real Is cause disguised W110 death which certificate tho plnsltlnn signs and whIch no one but himself and a clerk sees Probably not one case of tlco In 1000 malprac ever suK becomes time subject of a law suit but In the last year on proMmntely 150 cases heroin tho Plalntift has alleged ± ben malpractice have 1 reportod lln lh ° LTrnlln IIOWSIIIIIJlIS C18 owing to the social mitt prow tnenco the favored and positions clans of many phis not more noi than half suits stated the now probably result in any newspaper publicity but It would probably not bo an state hunt the oxaggeratlon to total cases ot lice not malprac Involving criminal or criminal operations Illelllcml practice amount to 150000 wOllld or more case to each than ono physician In the This country Istlnlllto Is or loss conjecturo Courso more or Unthllely permanent dIsabilities deaths and and are frequent occur within the most eory knowledge ot Ill ont when life could been have unveil or health time restored had phjslclan been and competent sklllrul careful |