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Show MEDICAL FAILURES. An Authority Says Three Fourths of Oradustes Are Unfitted to Practice That 3 nun out of the l.noo gradu ate turned out b) tho Medical Col leges each vt-ar urt- wholll) untitled to practice medicine and are t lenacea to the communltlia In which tbey settle set-tle waa stated by Dr. Cheslor Mayer, of the Htate Hoard of Medical Kxnm-luers Kxnm-luers of Kentuck) at a meeting of tho American Medical Aesoclallim's Committee Com-mittee on. Medical education, held In Chicago not'Iong aa,o Dr Mayer-aald that onl) il'toJI( per cent of the rraduate are qnallfled r'lft) -eight per cit of the gifduait.xamlneil In it state wiro n'tued llctme With few Xceptlons ilifn fullurAe. took a acoiil examlnaildii .lit'n t,i'W wet kit and inly ! i(-r iun( of,4llln ssed J4kU doc not MlpJllllU dellek-n 'tlth b tin Ir irnLiJnif Xe" ourrected 16 lUpae few wevnj fir, I)er aald ' (1 pixibnljjy slioivy that 'vixrlcncn atioi-d tbni-'what tho tost would, probably be nnd the) 'crammed' for the j'xatnliintlpu Dr. W. T (lott, 8ecreUiy ofubu Indlann Hoard aald: "The majority of our schuols now tench their studentB how to pass ix-ninlnntlons, ix-ninlnntlons, not how to bo i;ood phj-slclana." phj-slclana." At ' the eesalun ot the American Medical Association held In Atlantlo City In June, Dr. M. Cla)ton Thrush, n professor In the Medico Chlrurglcul .College In I'hllAdelphla wtld- "Man) doctors turned nut of the Medical Schools are ho Ignorant In mattera pertaining Io pharmacy that the) know nothing about the properties ot the drug they prcacrllw for their patient!" Dr. Henry Ileal, Jr, President Pres-ident of the Pennsylvania, tltnte Hoard ot Medical Kxamluers, after scrullnlx Ing tho wMtr of n class nf cutidl dates for llcetiauro said' "About 0110 quarter of the papers show a degree of Illiteracy that renders tho candidate candi-date for licensure Incapable of understanding un-derstanding inoillclne " A great many more iili)slclnn and chemists might be quoted In aupiwrt ot tho astounding charge that 3,000 Incompetent In-competent nro being dumped onto nn unuHcllng pubtlo each year. What tho damage duno amounts tn ran never be estimated for these Incompetents In-competents enjoy the privilege of diagnosing, di-agnosing, preaerlblng or dlapcnalng drug regarding tho, properties of which they know nothing nnd then o( 'signing denth ccrtlllcntes that arc notpaed upon by aii)one unless the corouer la called In l'rolmbly there Is not a grave jard from one end of tho country to the other that doe not contain the burled evidences of the mistakes or criminal carelessneiH ot Incompetent physicians During tho last )enr there liv been perhntie, half n doien known case where surgeon, after perform-Ins; perform-Ins; operation have sewed up tho In-cltlon In-cltlon without first removing the gnuie Hinge ustd to absorb the Mood, nnd In mine case forceps and mill surgeon' sclssuis have been left In the wound How many of theeo rimes thcru have been, where tho patient died, there Is no means m knowing und comparative!) few of the case where the discovery Is made In time to savo life liecomo gen orally public. Reports from Siiulla rlums for the treatment ot tho Drug Habit shun that members of tho medical medi-cal profession are more often treated In these Institutions than member of nny other profession, nnd that n tnajorlt) of the patients, excluding the phvslclnns thcmsilvca, can trace their downfall dlrecllj to n careless ph)ilc!an How man) criminal oenillnnn are pi rfnrmetl b) ph)slclnns Is nlso 11 matter ot conjecture Opcratlona of this das are. unfortunate!), very tretiuint In large cllles Home gradil-atetl gradil-atetl and llcenstd ph)slclans, many of them of supiHiecd resectnblllty, make an exclualvo prnctlcu nt criminal crim-inal medical und surittcnl treatment. Dr. Henry O. W. Ithclnhnrt, Coroner' rhyslclnii of Clilcniio. estimate tho number of criminal tqierallnns, nnnu nllly, In Chlcngo alum at 3Mlil How man) remind futnlly nro unknown, na when death resirlls, the real cauvu la dUgulat-d In the death certlllcnte, which the pbytlcluu signs, mid which no one hut himself nnd n clerk sees l'lobabh not one ense of malpractice malprac-tice In 1,000 1 ver become the subject of a law suit but In the last vonr approximately ap-proximately If.O cane wherein '-e plaintiff has alleged malpractice nave been reported In the newspapers, and owing to the sntlal prumliience and the favored positions of muu) phvsl-clan phvsl-clan not more than halt the new suits stated, probabl). result In any newspaper puhllcli), but II would prqbably not be an exaggeration tn state that the total rases of malpractice, malprac-tice, not Involving criminal operations or criminal medical practice would amount to ISO.oou or more than one case to each physician In the count rt This istlntulo Is, of conrie, more or less conjecture I'ntlmely deaths and pennant nt disabilities are frequent, and occur within the knowledge nf almost al-most evtrv one wlun lift- 1011I1I lime In- u suti d 1 In ilth 1 -t. ii-1 hud the ih-iUian "i tllltul ca' fid und coniptnn |