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Show but this boils down to profession all selfishness and greed, unless properly directed. With our modern means of transportation specialists are available to people peo-ple who reside out of the towns and cities. But specializing has a tendency to concentration of knowledge and skill, while general gen-eral practice constantly broadens broad-ens the one and improves the other, especially when there is ability, natural or, acquired, to diagnose cases. In general practice prac-tice in a town like Bingham and district there is certainly a larger larg-er field for usefulness. It may be said that general practice leads to less concentration of effort, ef-fort, yet if we look on our doctors doc-tors here it demonstrates this does not necessarily follow. It all depends on whether the ethics eth-ics of the profession are observed, observ-ed, and ambition proceeds along proper channels. Whether spec- EDITORIAL Dr. William Allen, President of the American Medical Association, Asso-ciation, recently remarked "We need more family doctors and fewer sj)ecialists In large cities there may be an opportunity for specialists but here in the country, coun-try, which still contains the larger larg-er portion of population, there is greater opportunity fV general gen-eral practitioners. : In the country a more' "nti-mate "nti-mate knowledge of patientsvan be had by physicians, and where practically many of the family doctors can call their patients by their first name, there is a mutual mu-tual advantage to both. So far as the specialist himself is concerned con-cerned expert krowledge of one line of medicine or surgery may yield larger financial returns, i ialist or general practitioner, the physician will be what the man in him determines, and, generally gener-ally speaking, the man in the country is more of a man than the one in the city, as even at Salt Lake City we know of specialists spec-ialists who refuse to answer night calls, then why be a specialist spec-ialist we ask. The country doctor we say gets close to the people of the district in which he resides he, knows them and makes their every interest his interest. Hurrah Hur-rah for the Family Doctor. |