Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-11-16

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m some length on the objection Of the
physicians and surgeons of its city TO
having their names mentioned in the
newspapers in connection with cases of
illness and bodily injury with which they
have TO do. II appears that every physi-
clan and surgeon in Charlotte signed
paper requesting that the names of Char-
lotte doctors be not used in connection
with any case of medicine or surgery.
Tho Observer says:
1T would not have been nice TO have
ignored this formal request, and II has
been strictly complied with. The
Observer has been at liberty 10 mention
through its news columns the physicians
Of other towns. many of whom have been
kindly spoken OF at times by our corre-
spondents. but the name of Charlotte
doctor was not TO be- mentioned
AS the Observer further says:
"This is not the rule i'm cities. In
any New York newspaper any day can
be seen the report of an accident or a
statement of a case of sickness. with the
name Of the physician in attendance. Re
Gently we copied from the Baltimore sun
an account of an operation by which DR..
Tiffany had removed a wedge from
mans face. Almost every day for weeks
past the Associated Press dispatches
have told what Dr. Newton, the physi-
clan I'm attendance. had to say with re-
ference to the case of Vice President
Hobart"
We agree with the Observer in the
opinion that such n situation as that in
l IN ha
profession as a whole; for. as tire OBJ
server continues:
THE names of physicians appear every
| dav in the newspapers of other North
| Carolina towns, but not in Charlotte.
Perhaps the outside public thinks there
are no physicians or surgeons here. That
is a mistake; there are. And there Is
reason to believe that some of them
groan because Of having signed the re-
quest above referred to. To show that
they are not wholly averse to seeing
their names in print, it may be said that
soma Of them have rendered news about
changes in location OF Offices about the
dissolution Of old co-partnerships and the
formation OF new, &c.-matter which pro-
perlv belongs in the advertising columns.
There is no nobler profession than that
or the physician anu sui SNDif '' N--NAN 80
mona more absolutely necessary. The
good deeds he does-and they are mani
fold. every day, every hour-the triumphs
Of his marvellous skill, should be made
known 10 the world through the worlds
present medium of information-the daily
newspaper, for the encouragement and
comfort Of mankind, for distribution of
the knowledge that in the medical pro-
fession men have a body of scientists and
philanthrOpists on whom they may rely
under any and all circumstances, for al
! deviation. and often the absolute cure, Of
tho ills that flesh is heir TO. The news
Paper Is for the doctor, as well as for
the lawyer, the minister Of the Gospel
and all other classes of men. The OBJ
| serve, concludes as follows:
''Wo don't know anything about medi-
cal ethics. but we do know that 1t Is
great pity that the physicians OF any
other town in the State can get into this
paner. but that II ose Of Charlotte can't"
1t seems to us that the Charlotte ply
sicians are standing in their own light
and doing an injustice to their brethren
OF tho medical profession everywhere, as
well az to the world at large.