Show Ylupa 11J inrinra igl1r t N r By ANDREW S DRAPER Superintendent or EducatIon New York City It is too bad that people peo-ple seem so unable to get rid of a doctor who has become a piece of the family bricabrac when they really want to The only national society yet to be organized which I can think of is one which will give the members courage to get rid of physicians of whom they have tired and who have more nerve than they themselves have If one doesnt like a lawyer he goes to another with his next case but if he doesnt like his physician physi-cian he holds on to him with a sternness which philosophy never has explained ex-plained and experimental psychology has never yet solved If men and women were not so subject to claptrap and pretense they would have better bet-ter health pretenders would not be so common nor so persistent and physicians phy-sicians of worth would be recognized more widely and more uniformly regarded re-garded It needs no mere theory and no bare logic to show that science and sympathy must go together in the successful practice of medicine The life of every successful physician makes it obvious enough The lower ranks of the profession are full of men who blunder along and hold on to a weakling or an unfortunate with all the persistence u ich credulity permits but the upper ranks of the profession hold the really successful men in whom human sympathy unites with learning to develop the great soul whom the world recognizes on the instant and for whom it always is eager to remove its hat The men who are capable of service and who arc anxious to serve are the only men worthy of recognition recogni-tion in the medical profession And all of us have some sort of a claim upon the most eminent and successful medical men and the qualities that have made them successful I success-ful make them respect it One who has served whoever called for small fees or no Ices at all times of day or night and has come to the time when he can do it no longer and must of necessity discriminate and may in a fix his own terms be bound way no longer may to respond to every call but he is bound to have youngsters around him who will and to keep them straight |