The San Francisco call., 1898-01-22
COOPER MEN
 ON THE GRILL
Dr. w. w. Kerr Accuses Their InterneS of
 Jealousy.
He Disserts on the Antecedents and Position Of "DOc-
 tOr' Fine.

There promises to be a merry little war over the proposition of Doctor" Fines acting as interne out at the City and County Hospital, one that threatens to involve not only the stu dents, but the faculties of Cooper and Toland Medical colleges, with Dr. Suss- dorf as dodger in general of verbal mis- siles hurled by both cOntending forces Dr. w. w. Kerr, professor of clinical medicine in Toland College, who has had charge of wards c, D and H at the hospital for nearly twelve years, starts the ball rolling with the statement that the whole affair has been started by | jealousy of Cooper College students and that their actions and assertions so far have been contemptible.
 Three inteInes were suspended by 1 pr. Sussdorf at the end of the year. | he declared yesterday, "on account of neglect of duty, and no final action has 1 yet been taken in their case. I asked l the Board of Health to permit MT. i Fine to assist the other internes in the
 ward until such time as final action
 was taken in the case of these suspend 1 ed men. It was granted, but I wish l it to be understood clearly that Mir Fine is not an interne, but only an as- 1 sistant. No interne can be appointed
 until the case of those three men is acted upon finally.
 He is not a doctor and if that term
 has been applied to him it is merely
 out of courtesy. The boy is a gradu- ate of Berkeley and his father is an 1 Oakland physician. He has attended i the full term of lectures and failed to
 pass his final examinations simply on
 account of the fact that his eyes failed
 him. He passed the final examination
 for all hospital departments last April
 He has attended all his classes and
 needs to pass examination only in those 1 branches in which he failed to be ex-
 amined on account of his bad eye
 sight
 MT. Fine is under the direction of 1 Dr. Curl. my senior interne, and has 1 been under my tutelage for three years | l would rather have him where he is 1 than to have Cooper College man in there whom I know nothing about | Those four eXternes that the Cooper College men speak of are appointed to | take the place of any man from their
 own school, and not in the university
 wards. In fact, they have no place there at all.
 You see, in brief, their kick is this: There used to be six internes from each college, but the Board of Health de- cided that three from each was suff1-
 cient. That left several men in the Cooper ranks out, and when this va cancy occurred through the suspension
 of the men referred to they wanted to shove one of their men into the uni versity wards. They got fooled and now are sore over it. Another thing we could appoint externes If we want
 ed to. but have never applied for the | privilege. In addition. Mir. Fine was where he is before the Cooper College eXternes were appointed.
 Tn his final examination for gradu-
 ation in clinical medicine Mir. Fine | gained 98 per cent but did not take 1 the others on account of his eyesight l Dr. Hopkins so advising him. He is better qualified for the position he oc-
 curies than most graduates.
 This action on the part of Cooper | College students Is simply contempti- ble That is the least care to say" But the fact remains that, interne or