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Show EDITORIAL CLIPPING FROM THE COMMERCIAL The doctors are after us nijaln. Many of thoso attending tho conen-ticn conen-ticn of the American Medical .avo-elation .avo-elation are cotiiiiuuea to u cnmp.ilgn that hns for Its object tho passage of laws by Congress and tho various (state legislatures to compel ovc.-y man. wcuan and child In tho country io submit to an official medical examination exam-ination rt Ua'it once. 5 ear. Granted (that the se 'vices of a thorough')' capable nnd lioneBl physician could be' jobtainod, peKodlcni examinations r.ight le well enough for those wh? lean afford them, but it Is safe to say khnt most of the doctors adrdcatlug Much a law are thinking more of the (fees than of tho good it would do. 'Jliven If tho doctors were publlo cm-ddoyees cm-ddoyees whoso services were free to tho masses of tho people, ns far as making these examinations is con-cornned, con-cornned, they would still bo exposed to the temptation of Bearing thoso whom they oxamlned Into taking a course of treatment to be proscribed by tho examines or by any other members of tho medical profession who would split fees. At this very convention ono of tho most prominent promi-nent surgeons In tho country said that major abdominal operations are performed altogether too often aua m rnauy cuoes u iinicutioueiu wui do not know oven enough about our gery to bu permitted to make an in clslon into tho abdominal cavity. As long as wo havo doctors who aro willing will-ing to play with the llea of patients for their personal profit or even for the purposo of adding to their knowledge know-ledge of anatomy tho pubhs wii be unwilling to glvo tho medical profession profes-sion any inoro authority than It at present possesses. Exchange |