The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1907-09-19
FAILURES.
An Authority Says Three-Fourths o.
Graduates Are United TO Practice.


ates turned out By the Medical Col
leges each year are wholly untitled to
practice medicine and are menaces 20
the communities In which they set
. tie was stated by DR.. Chester Mayer.
Of the State Board OF Medical Exam
liners OF Kentucky 1T q meeting Of the
American Medical Associations Com
mittee on Medical Education. held in
Chicago not long ago. DR.. Mayer said
that only % to IS per cent OF the
graduates are qualihed Ffty-eight
per cent Of the graduates examined m
Is states were refused licenses. With
few exceptions these failures took a
second examination in a few weeks
and only 50 per cent Of them passed.
This does o mean that delcien-
cies in their training we're corrected
In those few weeks" Dr.. Mayer said.
"It probably shows that experience
showed them what tae test would
probably be and they 'crammed' for
the examination. Dr.. w. +. Colt.
Secretary Of the Indiana Board said;
The majority Of our schools now
teach their students how 70 pass eK.
amlnations, not how to be good ply
sicians.T
AZ the session Of the American
Medical Association held In Atlantic
City in June, DIT. N. Clayton Thrush,
a professor IN the Medleo C~hirurgicaI
College In Philadelphia said: Many
doctors turned out OF the Medical
Schools are 80 ignorant In matters
pertaining to pharmacy that they
know nothing about the properties
OF the drugs they prescribe for their
p~atientsl" Or. Henry Beats. Jr.. Pres
ident OF the Pennsylvania State Board
Of Medical Examiners. after scrutiniz.
hg the papers Of a class OF eandi.
dates for ncensure said. About one
quarter OF the papers show a degree
Of initeracy that renders the eandl-
dates for licensure incapable OF q
derstanding medicine
A great many more physicians and
chemists might be quoted In support
Of the astounding charge that 5000 In
competents are being dumped onto
an u-nsuspecting public each year.
What the damage done amounts 10
can never be estimated for these In
competeHta enjoy the privilege OF d.
ngnosinR. prescribing or dispensing
drugs regarding the properties OF
which they know nothing and then
Of signing death certificates that are
not parsed upon by anyone unless the
coroner is called In. Probably there
Is not a grave yard from one end Of
~ m~aaram -. 81 H. HhmH aman 40
contain tho buried evidences OF the
mistakes OF criminal Carelcssncss OF
incompetent physicians
During the last year there have
been perhaps. hair a dozen known
caves where surgeons. after perform
ing operations have Hewcd gn the In
cisionH without first removing the
Fauzc Bpougca used 20 absorb the
blood. and IN some cases forcopa and
even surgeons scissors have been
left "a the wound How many Of
these cases there have been. where
tho patient died, there Is no means
OF knowing and comparatively few
o. the cases where the discovery Is
made ia time 60 anve life become gen
orally public Reports from Santa
RUNS for tue treatment Of tho Drug
Habit show that members OF the medi-
cal prufessioa are more often treated
In obese institutions than members
81 any other profession. and hat q
majority Of TIE patients, excluding TIE
phyHtrians themselves. can race
their downfall directly 20 a careless
phvulcian.
How many criminal operations are
performed ~ physicians o. also a
matter % conjecture Operations 81
this slaEs are unfortunately. very
-freqnuni in large cities Some grada.
atod and licensed physicians many
OF thon 81 supposed rospectabliV,
make Ia exclusive practice of crim-
final medical and surgical treatment
Dr. Hnrry C W. R~hcinhart. Coroncra
physician 81 Chicago. estimates the
number az criminal operations. annu-
ALLY, IN C4acaeo alone az 3S.ooo. How
many eeanied fatally are unknown.
as when drath results. the real cause
O. disguised In the death certificate.
which she phgsirian sigma and which
no one hrt himseh and q clerk secs
Probably not one case al malprac.
uco ia 1909 eteg becomes che subject
az a law suit hHt On the last year ap.
f~goximatciy Ice a. wherein tho
piainun has aileEci malpractice have
botn reported fla the newspapers, aud
OUing 10 the social prominence and
the favored positions ~ many physi.
clans not more than haif the new
suita stated, probably. result IN any
newspaper publicity. bat q wonld
pro3abh not BE- an evaporation TO
state thaf the total cases of malprac.
uce. net iavolying criminal operations
or criminal medical practice. would
amount 10 fbo. 600 or more than one
case 10 each physician Ia the country.
This estimate ia. Of course. moro or