Article May 31, 1913 Issue

At the congress on legislation and education of the American...

The Evening Citizen

At the congress on legislation and education of the American (Allopathic) Medical Association in session in Chicago recently, Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, dean of the medical school of the University of Michigan, declared that "the coming physician would pay less attention to medicine and the recondite learning of the profession, and more to simple human needs. Instead of a prescriber of drugs he would be a digger of ditches, an engineer expert in the ways and means of sanitation." He further said that present-day physicians "were at fault in not correcting their attitude, and unless action was taken, a new profession to succeed that of medicine would be established along lines of sanitation." This admission is both courageous and encouraging. It is also pathetic in its implication. If the medical profession would also come to see that the present-day medical doctor is not qualified by education or practise adequately to handle the conservation of public health, the agitation for a federal department of health would cease.

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