Health For All (press cutting)
1938-08-17 1938 1930s 1 page NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS Subject National Medical Services. Sheet No. Reference Daily Herald, 17/8/38. Folder No. Health For All 17/8/38 LET'S hope the doctors' professional organisations don't always speak for all the doctors or even the best...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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17 August 1938
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| Summary: | 1938-08-17
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NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS Subject National Medical Services. Sheet No. Reference Daily Herald, 17/8/38. Folder No. Health For All 17/8/38 LET'S hope the doctors' professional organisations don't always speak for all the doctors or even the best of the doctors. For in some parts of the world the medical associations are getting a very dictatorial tone into their voice. In New Zealand the local branch of the British Medical Association says it will boycott the public medical service to be introduced by the Dominion's Labour Government. In the United States the American Medical Association tries to black-list the doctors employed by the new voluntary societies of patients who have set up a co-operative medical service for themselves. In New Zealand Mr. Savage and in the United States President Roosevelt are telling the doctors to behave themselves or take the consequences. So said Mr. Lloyd George in this country when in the years before the war the doctors filled the Albert Hall and shouted defiance at National Health Insurance. A public medical service is coming to all progressive countries as surely as morning. In that service doctors will be paid a fair salary. But the salary will not vary according to the advice given to private patients, so that a doctor who is always recommending expensive operations may make five times the income of a doctor who tries to avoid operations wherever he can. Good doctors ought to be telling their professional organisations to call off the fight against public medicine, and instead start thinking how they can help Governments to launch national medical services on the right lines.
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