Bingham News | 1923-06-23 | Page 7 | Most Asinine Legislation as to Health, Medical Licensure, Education

Most Asinine Legislation as to Health, Medical Licensure, Education By DR. L. D. WILSON, in California State Journal of Medicine. Rarely do physicians of sound judgment seek election to state legislatures. legisla-tures. Or if they do, it is in a half-hearted manner and without adequate support from the other members of their own profession. As a result we have the spectacle yearly of state legislatures perpetrating perpetrat-ing the most asinine legislation in relation to health, to medical licensure, and to education. In the meantime the legislative committees of stat medical soeieties in their reports oiinmlly deplore the lig'slative actions taken, and cypress futile hopes for improvement in the future. The way i for phvsicians tf. get for the enni'iumity san.; health, licensure, and edu-! edu-! cational legislation is to t'ike a hnv.; directly in its making. I lnf.irt!!!intclv. gs.-tting d"cted to do this is, not so easy for the phy 1 lie'ian. He has so long and so aiduou.-ly cultivated th-3 narrow view thai his duty is at lely to the patitnt, that the putu-nt wh.-'ti turned voter is apt' to regard the doctor s his personal attendant only and without knowing.- or experience beyond that function