Show DOCTORS AND STATI TE COI COILE rEn IS S r I Here Is rather an un interesting circular from n a Committee Committee Com on Medical Education In tho the United States It seems to have been organized t three ce years ears ago ago ugo-b by whom wo we are not advised And Anel its members have have been heen making investigations In of or tho the character and equipment of or tho the medical colleges of or the country While there seems ems to have been heen no definite appointing authority for Its or organization organization or- or the character of or the men composing this committee on medical education i Is so gO high that tho rho value o of their service Is at once established They are are- A A. D. D Bevan of or Chicago W. W T. T Counselman Councelman of or Boston J. J A. A Witherspoon of or Nashville Charles II Frazier of Philadelphia and Victor C. C Vaughan of Ann Arbor These These gentlemen report that the medical colleges es of the United States Stales are arc not sufficiently worthy worth that too big hiS a n percentage Q of them are arc Illy lily equipped for Cor instruction Instruction tion in medicine and that tho the states r do not give to tho the stud study of or medicine the Iho same mo support that Hint is given I cn to tho the stud study of law or the sciences And that i is lamentably lamentably lament lament- 1 ably bl true The statement Is broadly made malle In this thi circular that no medical college can give a proper course courso in medicine and anel make malo expenses at It The inference is that no independent In Independent In- In dependent nt medical school can cnn equip itself employ great teachers require a proper lime time for fot study and find pre prey preliminary practice and get enough In tuition fees to maintain the e establishment That is probably true Then the public has to decide on aiding medical schools or permitting the grade rade of or medical skill to lo deteriorate And that latter alternative would bo ho a sod sail thing for the doctor deserves better of or the people He lie has put them under obligation obligation obliga obliga- tion lion to him When one considers that the splendid things In medicine have havo been absolutely donated h by physicians the debt owed them by the people becomes manifest Here is a suggestion suggestion- The recognition of the germ cause e and resulting control b by quarantine o of great plagues like lIko cholera yellow yellow yel yol- low fever and pest tho the virtual eradication of smallpox b by vaccination the cure of or diphtheria b by antitoxin the relief from pain secured by anesthetics the prevention pre of oC surgical infections b by Lf Listers Lister's ter's great discovery antiseptic antiseptic antiseptic anti anti- septic surgery which has hag made pos possible the many lifesaving lifesaving life life- saving operations of or modern surgery the reduction of typhoid fever by hy a pure pare water supply supply all all the these e have added greatly to the wealth and health of or communities and to the happiness and comfort of the individual And doctors do not sell their discoveries The They give them fo o the world No o matter what a physician has spent In preparing himself for his lS profession If Ie Inthe in inthe inthe the progress of his practice ho he develops a 3 remedy until then theft unknown unknown though sought diligently b by others others- h he makes It known to all aU his brethren that the race may may receive a the tho benefit Th That t Is Is' Is rather r a n. anoble noble thinG thine i i It creates creates creates-an f obligation on an Part patt i- i of of the tho people eople sh should uM seek to make mako thc the le level el of or f medical medical efficiency very high b by all proper requirements And the they should make the medical colleges Just as good as they can ca'n be made by mone money pro I provision provision so lon so so that the graduates graduate may be of or the highest po possible ihle proficiency when the they go to the practice We Ve are told that thatA that that- A J l modern medical education demands i 1 1 a n. four year high school education 2 a 3 year of physics chemistry and biology C 3 two years in well-equipped well laboratories of or anatomy physiology pathology and pharmacology 4 4 two years rears ears in clinical work in dispensaries and hospitals 5 j. j a year as In a hospital If H tho the people require that standard only t the tho o rich young oung men can afford to study tudy medicine and talent has never been measured b by the length of a fathers father's purse The doctors have laid an obligation upon the public and It Is to be e hoped that tho the public will recognize It H and proceed accordingly |