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Show TO CARE FOR MENTAL CASES Covernment Is Sot-king Young Physicians Phy-sicians to Undergo Special Training for Veterans' Bure.iu iiervico. Dr. Frank V. llntchln-t, clinical director di-rector nf the United Mules Veloi nil)' .'''v-'.i'.v ;j-, so bureau, III ash- I Ington, D. C l'i-((!' l'i-((!' I ly vlsllcd iiii- tidiini IiiiikIihiih-- tors of tho American Amer-ican Legion upon request (o cvphiln the now slop 1 1 1 It -en by tin Voter-bus' Voter-bus' bureau to p r o v I (I o dot lor trained l o e t o r s tint! nurses In the i n ro of n o u r o- Or. Frank h. psyililalrlo World Hutchins. war veterans. . Tho government Is looking for M' young doi tors of ineillelne to e, impose en Initial eluss for speeiul tnilning in I'.io treatment of menial eases, lioetoi ll itehlns sulil. "Nouro-psyehlatry is perhaps the most ililheult of all the veterans' ailments," ail-ments," ho sank "Almost anyone knows that tulioreulos:s Is eaused by a ilollnllo germ. Almost everjone knows what kind of treatment ami curt should lu given a tuliei cu.ar patient. pa-tient. Tills mental disease, however. may be the combination of many other phvslcal allinenis. Hardly two of them are exactly alike. It Is a dlllleu'.t problem, prob-lem, and doctors handling these cases need .special training. They must huve all. the patience In the world." lwtor llutcliins said it Is Impossible to obtain the icipKied number of socialists so-cialists In nervous and uionteJ diseases, dis-eases, and that It bas hei-ouie necessary neces-sary for the government to Instruct a stalT of lis own for this line of work. "The policy of tho bureau Is to pro vide medical attention for (lie disabled veterans so that everything possib'e may be done to restore theui to health and proper status In civilian life," tin sal.L A sysemntlc anil comprehensive course In nouro-psychlatry lias been cutlini-d. It consists of 17i! h-ctuttM nnd doinonstrullotis nnd Foitie -1 11 hours of clinical and laboratory work Three courses are to be given. Tin tlrst. which will lat four months, ll the academic. T'.-o next Is a I"-1 graduate course of six weeks and th third coi slsts of one or Ho conferences confer-ences u year lasting thn-o or four duvs, . lure Ideas und experiences ure exchanged. ex-changed. The accepted candidates will rrs-elvc a month during the school work. and after graduation will le passed assistant surgeons in the reserve corpi of the United States public health service, or eligible fir employment m class "IV physicians under the United States civil service commission and ns signed to duty with United States Veterans' Vet-erans' bureau. Those salaries range from S.I.OiX) a year npwariL The first class stinted work Jann ury 4. and at the Fame time schools for graduate nurses, social service, o.s enpntlonnl-ther.tpcutlst and physio therapeutist work began. |