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Show eugared with many dollars are their ministrations to be had, while from less alluring cases, though their aid is equally needed, they make it an ethical duty to stay away. At every session of the legislature, legis-lature, when changes in the laws pertaining to the practice of medicine are sought or proposed, there is much fluent talk of the high ideals and the special standards required of medical men. Here appears to be a case for these orators, either as officials or as individuals, to get busy with a probe as to the behavior attributed attrib-uted to some of their professional associates. If it shall be shown that the story told to the police was unfounded, it is still the doctors' doc-tors' due that the public should know it; while of course if the tale is true, not a day should pass before measures are taken to purge the profession of the contemptibly selfish practitioners who have disgraced it. News. , . , PHYSICIANS, HEAL YOURSELVES! "'Professional ethics," as applied by any of the "learned progressions," pro-gressions," is a pleasant-sounding phrase. But if the story told to " ihe police is true, one wonders under what particular phase of professional pro-fessional ethics is concealed the real reason why something like a "dozen physicians refused to answer the call for help to a dying woman in Salt Lake City lately. It may not have been in violation of professional ethics, but certainly it was a violation of common humanity if such a thing happened as reported. It is said that there is no law to compel a physician to attend a case of extremity such as that of this dying woman. It may be, also, that a physician would not have been of any use even if he had arrived on time. None the less, the case will tend to attach a stigma to an honorable calling unless some competent authority lakes the matter up in an investigation that shall clear the fair name of the profession, or takes steps to drive out of its ranks .he selfish, money-mad ghouls of the sick bed who would permit an occurrence. The reputable doctors should be the last to tolerate, iust as they are the last against whom the railing accusation accusa-tion can bo brought, that only around the couch of suffering |
