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Show BRITISH I( TORS TO KEEP THEIR PATIENTS' SECRETS B.v International News service ) LONDON'. After two days debate the British Medical association has decreed thai doctors shall stick by tradition and not reveal patients' secrets, se-crets, cvon though revelation of those secrets might be Just the evidence required re-quired by a court of law to sentence a person to prison or death Thus doctor Will remain In tho same category with priests and lawyers law-yers respecting the confidence of their' clientele. This decision was arrived at after one physician stated he knew of a case where another doctor poisoned his wife without arousing tho suspicion suspi-cion of public authorities Practically all British medical authorities au-thorities support the decision, which, they say, If not taken, likely would result in such domestic unhapplncss and gnat personal miseri to priests ' . "' ' "" c11 -TT l I ' i ' T I ' TT ! I H, |