The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-09-20
MEDICAL FAlLuRes.
An Authority Says rhree.Fourths Of
Graduates Are Omitted 10 Practice

That 5000 ont of the 5000 gradu
ntos turned out Dos the Medical Col.
/ logo8 each year are wholly untitled Co
practice medicine aud are mcuaccs 10
| the communities iu which they set.
tie was stated boy DR. Chester Mayer
u the State Board Of Medical Exam.
lnora OF Kentucky az "a mouting OF the
! American Medical Associations Com
mlttee on, Medical Education, held in
| Chicago nut'long aso Dr. Mayer said
that only 25'to % per cent OF tho
graduates are ouuIlnfd Fiftyclrht
per cent Of the glHduat6s,cXamIuod iu
IS states were ro'uied llcoAsos. wish
Tow exceptions these failures took a
secosd examination ina tcw weeks
and only 90 per cont or ,hom passed
Ikli does not tntap, that dencien..
cics IN their tralIlnE ,wcg corrected
lIb tdosc few wcaks@ d.. Mayer said.
I n probably. shows that experience
showed thoni" what the test would
probably be- and they 'crammcd for
the examination. Dr. W. T. Colt.
Secretary ofitho Indiana Board said.
The majority OF our schools now
| teach their students how to pass OK.
aminatIons not how to be good ply.
slcIans"
At the session OF the American
Medical Association held in Atlantic
| city In June Dr. VI. clayton Thrush.
n professor In the ModIco ChlrurFIcll
| College IN philadelphia said: "Mauy
| doctors turned out OF the Medical
Schools are so ignorant In matters
pertaining TO pharmacy that they
know nothing about the properties
Of the drugs they prescribe for thr.r
| pauoutsl' Dr. Horny Beats. Jr. Pros.
ident Of the Pennsylvania State BOARD
/ OF Medical Examiners. after gCrut.uiz.
| Ing the papers OF class OF cludi.
dates for licOn8ulo said: About ono
quarter Of the papers show q degree
OF llIItoracy that Tcndors the caudi.
dates for liccnsurc incapable OF uu.
dcrstandlng medicine"
4 great many more physicians and
chemists might be quoted In support
Of tho astounding charge that 5000 In.
compotcnts are being dumped onto
an unsuspccting public each year.
What tho damage done amounts to
can never be estimated for these In.
compotents enjoy the privilege OF di.
aguoslng. prescribing or dispensing
drugs regarding the properties OF
which they know nothing and then
OF signing death certificates that are
not passed upon by anyone unless the
coroner is called Ia, Probably there
Is not n grave yard from one end Of
the country TO tho other that does not
contain the buried evidences OF the
mistakes or criminal cUrclcssnoM OF
Incompetent physicians,
During the last year there have
been perhaps. half dozen known
cases whore surgeons, after perform.
ing operations have scwcd up the In.
cislons without FIRST removing the
rauze spuugcs used to absorb the
blood and in some cases iorcops and
oven surgeons scissors have been
Icft In the wound. How many of
these eases there have been. where
the patient died, there Is no means
Oh knowing and comparatively few
OF the cases where the discovery Is
made IN time 10 save life become gen.
orally public. Reports from Santa.
RUINS for the treatment OF the Drug
Habit show that members OF the medi.
cal profession are more often treated
In these institutions than members
OF any other profession, and that a
majority OF the patients. excluding the
physicians themselves can trace
their downfall directly 10 a careless
physician.
How many criminal operations are
performed by physicians Is also a
matter OF conjecture Operations OF
this class are. unfortunately, very
frequent In large cities Some gradu.
ated and licensed physicians, many
OF them OF supposed rospectabllity,
make an exclusive practice Of Grim
inal medical and surgical treatment.
Dr. Henry G. W. Rhoinhart, Coronor's
physician OF Chicago. estimates the
number Of criminal operations, Rnnu'
nllly In Chicago alone az $4,000. How
many resulted fatally are unknown,
as when death results, the real cause
ia disguised I'm the death certificate
which the physician signs, and which
NO one but himself and clerk secs
Probably not one case OF malprac
tICo in 1000 ever becomes the subject
OF a law suit but In the last year lp
uruNimatuly 100 eases wherein g.,
plaintiff has alleged malpractice nave
been reported IN the ucwsuauprs. and