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Show M Not the Only Shameful Instance H The prncti co of medicine is one of the nobl- H est in which a man or an individuaal can engage, H provided it is properly followed; but when it h H chosen as a profession by one who considers it M merely as a a means to secure luxury, whose M avaricious conscience sees only tlio case and H financial reward that io may acquito from it, B such a one drags it down to the level of the m ordinary cold-blooded commercial occupations. Hn The following comment by the editor of the H. Horald-Republican is fully endorsed by this ' paper. The articlo was prompted by the alleged B refusal of Dr. John Rcattio of Salt Lako City to H go to the relief of Dr. J. W. Ewin, a dentist liv- H ing but fow doors dlstunt, who had taken poison H with suicidal intent. Dr. Ewin was a personal Br' friend of tho writor, a man of sterling qualities, m honest, conscientious, a church worker, and one B , of the most successful and widely known dentists Hf ( in tho city. v For more than a year ho had been in failing Up, health and had tried to induco his wife to consent Kjf to leaving the city nnd move onto a farm, but alio K declined to do so, His norves shattered, it is sup- M. posed ho becamo men tally unbalanced and 'while V in that condition took a doso of strychnine. Ilia H J wife pleaded with a nearby physician to come H to her homo and attend her husband, but her Hfl efforts wero in vain. As to the rofusal of the Hf physician, let us quota tho nrticlo abovo men- B tioned: K. "The profession of healing is one of tho most BL noble to which man may ho called. Tho ability K ' to roliovo suiTering, to prolong lifo, to carry a 1 touch of sunshine and optimism into tho sick i room to bring tho smilo of hope to tho countcanco HhI of tho ailing, carries with it also responsibilities k that mako exacting demands upon the physician. f When tho powor with which modern medical B ' science ondowsjta dovotces is wielded righteous- B ly, when it is gladly and promptly used in tho B interest of humanity, its professor honors himself Bj and his profession. When his avocation sinks B him to tho level of a trade, when the physician or B' surgeon considers his skill as valuable only be- B causo it can secure him comfort or a competency, Bif when he regards his knowledge as something to Bf bo exchanged for dollars, merely a commercial Bf asset, tho cumulative medical loro of the ages B has been given him in vain, and tho vocation Bi takes rank with thoso which mako no other than K sordid claims. Br& Public attention has just been called to an Hf incident that should be as revolting to the earnest K mombors of tho medical profession as it is to the r public generally. Tho wife of a dying man, hast Bl inng to tho residence of tho nearest physician, B1; 1H nfl,,uc thwt ho makes no calls at night. Tho Br fronsiud woman whose husband had taken poison B and had but small chanco of life, hinged upon Bp prompt and eiheient medical troatmout, is ad- Bb vised by this modern healer to go elswhore be Bv cause ho had no intention of leaving his comfort- tf able bed to go out into tho cold. One assumes Bf that, after her tearful departure, this mombar B' of tho noblest of professions returned to his slum- B p bars, reckoning little that he had porhaps defied a H- human boing of his singlo hope of recovery. H "If that sort of thing is not unlawful, it B should be. Or at least it should be within the Ht power of the authorities to take fiom such as B ho the right to practice medicine. Certainly, an B individual so lacking u ordinary human synv B' pathy,andso unmindful of tho obligations im- B posed upon him by his supposed skill and tho B ethics of tho profession which he conspicuously B , fails to adorn, is a menace to life and health B"' rather than their protector.' ' aaV |