Show Dr Brady Says No Matter What Other Faults No Confidences Betrayed i By William Brad Brady MD M.D. It may well be be and arid indeed I hope lope so that situated as I am here in the midst of the most frightening Tightening conc concentration con- con c centra c n t r a tion Uon of brass specialists and nd clinic racketeers racketeers racket- racket ers in the thc country coun- coun I try ry I get an unfavorable un- un y f favorable im impression res- res sion ion of the state of f the profession r Some of my medical medical med- med ical cal friends that thatis is s real doctors I like to pretend that hat several real Dr Brady doctors still think kindly of me tell ell me things are not so bad as I think hink particularly in the smaller cities and villages through the United States and Canada When I reply that I certainly hope so they assure me that medicine is still till a noble profession and they advise me to travel and get a clearer learer view of the way real doctors doctors doc- doc tors ors behave Lower Sights By this my colleagues mean that I should get about the country and andee see ee for myself what the real doctors doctors doc- doc tors ors are doing That is good adice advice advice ad- ad vice ice I suppose But Im I'm taking it itin itin in n a roundabout way way way-I I want to have lave a good look at the real doctors doctors doc- doc tors ors of South America South Africa Africa Af- Af rica ica and Europe If I find them with their s standards tan d a r d s down whether in consequence of the war warr or r from the same ugly cause as that hat which imperils the integrity of f American medicine Ill I'll lower my ny sights accordingly when I get back ack and begin knocking about about I I mean traipsing about America If any ny reader takes this as a hint that I want lecture engagements he or she he is sadly mistaken My prayer prayers is s that heaven will vill forgive me for lectures I have perpetrated in the past mst While my my medical friends advise me to travel more many of the brass rass specialists my term for a medical merchant who holds himself himself him- him self elf out as a specialist but takes all II the business he or she can lure away way from the general practitioners ers rs of the community and the I clinic linic racketeers my term for forie forthe forthe the ie dinky little doctors who haven't I the he courage to practice under their I own wn name but instead set up in business under the name of the Clinic which Clinic which impresses I the ie Yankee Wiseacres express Wiseacres express it itin itin in n simpler terms They mention precisely where I should go Who Vho knows 2 Maybe that's where I shall end up One thing I wish to say however however however how how- ever is that for all of my unpleasant unpleasant unpleasant un un- un- un pleasant ways and my egregious teachings I have never betrayed the confidence of a correspondent I may dissent from the view or oridea oridea oridea idea presented by a doctor if the correspondent happens to be a doctor I may reject the idea or even ridicule it it But I keep the identity of the doctor as confidential as the doctor would keep a secret revealed to him or her in inthe inthe inthe the consulting room or at the bed bed- side Hence I feel I need not re reassure reassure reassure re- re assure physicians or any other correspondents who may have something to say to me favorable or unfavorable that I am not in insensible insensible insensible in- in sensible to the ordinary amenities Strictly Private My medical friends if I may again use the plural never hesitate hesitate hesitate hesi hesi- tate to tell me off in vigorous language when they think I am wrong Sometimes I go red in the face and admit that I pulled a boner Sometimes I tell them to go fly a kite But in every instance it is strictly between ourselves Physicians of all ranks or degrees degrees degrees de de- de- de grees who notice what they believe believe believe be be- lieve to be wrong in this column owe it to the public welfare to tell me so even so-even even if it it is only a brief message by postcard By registering registering register register- ing his or her dissent or protest in this way the physician may not change my mind right away but believe me I have the utmost respect respect respect re re- re- re for sincerity of opinion whether it conforms with my own or not QUESTIONS and ANSWERS Her Daughter Shaves Shocked to discover that my daughter shaves her face regu regu- She says many girls do so 50 Will Vill this make the growth heavier as in men If she stopped now would the fuzz be no worse than it was originally Mrs H. H C. C W. W Answer Shaving Answer Shaving regularly will coarsen the hair Many women are naturally bearded to some extent Depilatories have some value temporarily temporarily temporarily tem tem- but must be used with extreme caution about the face I Electrolysis is tedious but perhaps most effective treatment at this time I would warn you against X-ray X treatment which is being given in some beauty emporiums under other fancy names A physician physician physician phy phy- should study the case from the standpoint of hormone im im- im- im balance I doubt that the facial hair would revert to the fuzz stage if shaving were stopped now |