The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-27
LOCAL JAPANESE EDITOR
GOES AFTER THE DOCTORS
Rule Making 1t Compulsory for Applicants for
License to Take Examination in English
Is Bitterly Attacked.

The editor of the Hawaiian Japanes
Chronicle is certainly taking an inter
est. He pays his respects now to tn
Board of Medical Examiners in thi
Territory because of that rule which
makes it obligatory upon applicants 70
license to practice medicine to pass al
examination in English, and does
without gloves. Here is the name
of the payment:
BROTHERHOOD OF PROBES
STONS.''
Drs. Tsutsumi and Mashima, as W.
| have already stated, have instituted
| mandamus proceedings against the
| Board of Medical Examiners, which re
| fused to issue, to them. licenses te
| practice medicine in the Territory, be
cause they could not speak English.
| We are eagerly waiting to hear OF
victory in this case, in order to pro-
| tect our rights. and in honor of ou1
| scientific world.
| The reason why the Board of Medi-
! cal Examiners made such restriction
| for the applicants, is easily apparent
| to any one who will quickly say, that
| 1t came from those physicians who by
obstructing the way of Japanese ply
sicians to obtain licenses will keep this
line of business amongst the white race.
In other words. it is nothing but a
struggle for self gain which is beneath
contempt. They simply show such
partially, and favoritism on account
of race. The reasons given by the
Board of Examination in regard to
in Tn oh
feeble.
One of the members Of the Board
evidently believes that there are nine
degrees of physician in Japan, and
that the lowest degree has no know
ledge of medical science. Then. he is
quoted as saying that after several at
tempts to conduct the examinations.
the result was so very unsatisfactory.
that the list of questions was taken
home by the interpreter for transla-
ton, which of course, was not agree
able to US, as there might be some i'm
proper and unfair advantage taken.
Owing to the interpreters ignorance of
the technical words, we could hardly
get an essential part of the answer,
therefore. we decided not to examine
them in their own language.
What does he mean by nine degrees
amongst the Japanese physicians? We
understand that the only difference
amongst them, in Japan at the pres
ent time, is those who graduated from
the Imperial Medical University or
from the Highest Medical Colleges, or
who passed examination to practice
medicine held by Home Department. or
who graduated from Foreign Medical
Schools. and was granted the licenses
hQfOra % n
License Law. or those who practice ac-
cording to the Chinese system. How
ever, we do not think that the above |
could be called degrees.
What the Board of Medical Examin-
ers thinks as undesirable physicians. |
may be from the last degree. But these
kind of people are disappearing, and it |
is hard to find them now. even in out
side districts.
1t can't be fact that there are such
persons to be found amongst those
who have come to Hawaii, and made
application for licenses to practice
medicine, in the Territory.
If the Board wishes to establish diff
ferent degrees for physicians accord
ing to their abilities, and knowledge of
medical science with the exception of
these 'tChfnese Medicine Men, we may
say that white doctors, who have only
obtained their diplomas from some So
called American Medical College by
their long stay in such colleges, are of
the lowest degree.
AS a matter of fact, the physicians
who graduated from these "Ameri-
can Colleges" and are now practicing
in Tokyo. and in other places are said
not to be successful. No patients call
at their offices and sparrows build
their nests in the entrances of these
offices.
Another fact. there are over thirty
Japanese physicians in Hawaii at
present While some of them have been
permitted to practice by previous
Boards of Examiners, without taking
an examination, believing the license
granted by the Japanese Government
to be sufficient. some of them have
taken their examinations through in
-erpreters
If the previous Boards made the
same ruling as the present one they
would have said. that the men acting
as physician at present, are dangerous
to the public health.
Yet, how about their abilities and
knowledge of Medical science? Have
any of them made mistakes VIII ch have
caused the death o. parents VINO peo-
pie believe would be safe and well to
day II they had been properly treated?
We do not believe so In many cases.
where physicians of the two races at
tended the same patients at the same
time. the japanese has shown himself
superior to the white.
The English Government has recog-
1ized their abilities and scientific
5nowledge for long time. and lately
have entered into an agreement with
he Japanese Government. By which
he physicians Of each nation has full
right to practice in either country.
one OF the contemporaries in Hilo,
the Hilo Shinbun." has an article cop
led from one Of the Medical Reports
If Japan which says, that the Japa-
nese Government has stared negotia-
ions with the United states Of America
10 allow the physicians of their respec-
i've countries to practice in certain