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Show THE YOUNG DOCTOR HANDICAPPED. The young doctors, pays the Salt Lake Tribune, are rebelling. They are resisting the old rule of the profession that doctors must not advertise, and the Tribune remarks: "It is well known that the regular physicians abominate advertising ad-vertising and denounce as quacks those who advertise their specialties special-ties and bring before the public the claims of cures that they have made in various diseases. The regular practitioners have had it all their own way heretofore, the general public not caring to take issue with them, and not many within their own ranks opposing the ethics eth-ics thus laid down. "But it appears that the younger doctors are rebelling; they find that the code bars them out. The young men just beginning to practice have no way to get their claims before the public; they are stopped from advertising by the ethics of the profession. And yet, if they do not advertise, or in some way bring to the notice of the public the fact that they are in the field as practitioners, they are not likely to get practice. It is, however, not at all obnoxious to the ethics of tho profession for a regular doctor to give to the newspapers newspa-pers the facts of his successful operations, the severity of the case, and the difficulties ho had to encounter in, the triumphant operation which he is proud to let the public know that he has performed. All this without pay to the newspaper, of course, and so the ethics are not violated. The question whether the puhlication of the details of such triumphant operation, if paid for by the doctor to newspapers newspa-pers would be a violation of ethics is- meroly academic, for no offer of payment in such cases has even been reported. It is a clear case, however, that if the newspapers print these reports, as they frequently fre-quently do, there is no violation of ethios if there is no charge for the publication. "But here, again, the 3'oung doctors find themselves barred out. They have no great cases to report, and they get no advantage from the free insertion of such fine advertising as the newspapers give when they report gratis the details of such splendid and successful treatment and operations. Here, more than ever, the doctors established estab-lished in practice get the benefit, and the young doctors, who are struggling to get where the old doctors are, find their paths not only slippery, but often impassable. And so they revolt. They don't think 'that the ethics Tvhich shut them out from any sort of recognition recogni-tion arc good ethics, and they are making a stiff move to put down the old ideas and inaugurate new ones of their own. They want recognition; they have to do it. It is a groundhog case with them, and they are out to win." |