The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1910-07-02
Doctors and Doctors

professor arragnng the medical education given students
Chicago day later dispatch saying there was deter
mnaon which gaining strength lessen the quantity AM
improve quality of the doctors And now we have before
sset papers urging that take in urging CONGRESS-
pass bill aiming the suppression of quacs and k;rs
emies Of the public
We not very much impressed either the appeals or thu
criticisms Twenty students go through medical college, two Of
of them born surgeons two Of them are bou
physicians; they know almost by intuition when person is il
what as him her. The others every question
the book but they do not succeed practitioners the
that they made mistake when they chose the medical profession
for life work One boy take shnge and couple sticks
ackkne and ten minutes have running the
near by Another boy equally bright could learn
saw board off straight in FIVE years Put them both in poly
echnc school, let them both aduate they all
questions Hunt them ten years later and you will find
accomplished engineer ready and able
engineering feat The other you will find county surveyor
and when you question the people employed
they will tell you that he did line straight never
perfect plat that his mathematics his eyes something
wrong that he is fit for engineer than would
man. There denounce hm-he studied hard he
has tried to do what he could The trouble is he should
have be engineer Take oys and
them study for the ministry The boy that could the
board off straight most persuasive preacher he has that gift
which CALL attract and hold mems attention. the grace of the
upon him and he successful preacher The
the that made the water Wheel the updest kind of
minister His waste of time His congregation calls
him bore And all the trouble from the fact that edu
Gated what he had adaptabty for the other not
And it's with the medical profession great many young
study be physicians and surgeons They themselves
"Oher people have become great in this profession will be- for
much brain of them The mistake they make is
brain only half the makeup great physician He's got
heart heart big and tender that when he
terica woman feeling of indifference for her vanshe and he's
only her condition with great desire his
heart to get her nerves regulated the evil spirit
pass The books tell the symptoms when has small
pox typhoid the other diseases and they give the remedies
which the prescribe for driving away the disease That
much all men can learn; but there deeper something about
physicians work To be successful he has to have that
he looks the face of sick sick he
he not thinking all of what he read up colleges he isn't
thinking at all of any precedents the books he ana
ing the nature of the patient going back the real hidden
Of the maady may attack that In little while he call
ed a successful doctor
Then there are who graduate physicians who fail
practitioners but who knowing nothing ee and having special
spes give little study particular branch OF the science
and then thew advertise extensively They either get and
women to certify what they have don they write the
certificates themselves sign them by imaginary and
impose upon people, Congress trying to stop this Ihese
papers that that league mas been iormeo
stop that kind of work do not believe will succeed because
men and in this country knowing that they Free
what they pease and when they feel badly
the local physician fails relieve that feeling they fan to
write to some advertised specialist for his prescription and the hope
which is awakened given often works the cure we
see no cure for this OF practice except through eduea
ing the people up the point that they will shrink from any
charlatan that will thus advertise himself The cure
for it all is sounder education in the homes In 'ne h
place. and then selection of the who may be permteo
study graduate physicians un that me comes
when man or feels badly the local physician does mo-
Immediately relieve feeling they to write to some one
who to have practice They do not
how many victims the bogus doctor has counted against hm
only know they feel badly they want relief Who was IL VINO s
that a sucker born every mlnute'