Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-21
SEVENTEEN NEW DOCTORS
Glass from University of Nebraska
College of Medicine.
DIR. HUTCHINSON MAKES ADDRESS
New York Leader of His Profession
Says the New Doctor Has AdvAn-
taEe of the Old and Tells
of the Future.

Chancellor Avery of the University of
Nebraska presented seventeen graduates of
the college of medicine last nmfwyyyyyy
the college of medicine with diplomas
Thursday night at the eighth annual COM
mencement exercises held in the First Con-
gregational church. Nineteenth and Daven-
port streets and hailed the sixteen young
men and one young woman for the first
time by their new title OF doctor"
DR.. Woods Hutchinson, the noted phys
ician and author of New York, addressed
the graduates upon the subject of THE
New Doctor" Chancellor Avery presided
and the invocation was by Rev. Frederick
T. Rouse, the chaplain of the evening. The
Hippocratic oath was administered to the
class by Acting Dean Robert II. Wolcott.
Members of the faculty and F. L. Halter,
George COPELAND and w. G. Whhmore of
the Board of Regents were on the platform
with Chancellor Avery.
DIR. Hutchinson gave many valuable bits
Of advice to the new doctors, telling them
that the doctor of the future must be diff
ferent In many respects from the doctor
of the past.
1T is a terrible thing to be new DOCTOR
said Dr. Hutchinson. II was one twenty
five years ago, and know. 1t Is something
which has TO be lived down. The old doe
tor used to have the advantage over the
new doctor, but nowadays the new doctor
has many advantages over the old one.
The time is coming when the old doctor
will have hard time to hold the confidence
of the people against the newly trained
young product which is going into the field
with him.
Problem for the Doctor,
1.-THE problem before us will soon be:
What will we do In a diseaseless world ?
With the purlficalon of our water supplies,
the improvements in our sanitary conditions
and preventative methods OF protecting our
food supply, there is not enough Of disease
TO go around. Everything which a doctor
used TO rely upon TO make living is d.
minishing The old doctor used 70 rely
/ upon his periods OF typhoid fever, his ep
idemlc OF measles and other contagious dis
eases to help fiji his purse. but nowadayi
there Is not enough OF these to so around
The stork used 10 be a good source of rev
enue, but modern days are bringing abou
a condition OF affairs where his visits ar,
getting fewer and fewer and he can not b,
| depended upon TO furnish living to man!
| doctors,
THE new doctor is taking a wider scope
|
getting ambitious to treat a whole com
munity, whereas the old doctor confined
himself TO individual cases. He was a fam
! Dy man, The new doctor Is beginning L
break away from old traditions and talk
right out In meeting. The new doctor vii
differ from the old doctor and viii play al
important part in the community, The oil,
doctor used to be paid for curing peopl
when SICK but the new doctor will be pal,
for keeping people well and preventing dis
ease
Future of the M. ID.
I'VE must be economists and the docto
OF the future Is going to be a politician
man who will take an active part in pub
lic life, When the doctors get into polite
and the influence OF the women is felt i'm
provements will come faster than they ar
even imagined now The religion of IN
doctor viii be service TO mankind and n
will be ever cheerful and hopeful as n
looks ahead into the bright future"
The following IL the list Of students grad