The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-08-07
MEDICAL MONOPOLY.

Pasadena Daily News: An editorial
in The American Journal of Clinical
Medicine advocates the theory that
'the inhabitants OF each community
should be equally divided among the
physicians"
After announcing this rather start
ling plan assuring prosperity to mem
bers OF the profession regardless OF
qualification or the preferences of the
dear people, the editorial goes on 10
say that ''if there were nc extra fees
for surgery, it is possible that operat-
ing would become somewhat less COM
mcn." Are we to infer from this high
m ed. cal authority that surgical opera
tlons are superinduced by the expecta-
ton of financial reward? But this ed
itorial writer continues: "The profess
sion would Gas a result of dividing the
inhabitants of each community equal
ly among the physicians) be more
nearly Appropriated to the ideal of a
fraternity; and while a few colossal
incomes might be diminished; every
member Of the profession would have
enough"
Here we have as bold a proposal for
public exploitation Of suffering human
ity and the personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of
the members of the medical profession
as one might expect to find.
II is unnecessary to quote further
evidence of the foregoing character.
Instances of the kind might be multi
piled almost indefinitely. A single
school Of medicine boldly proposes to
dominate not alone health regulations
and Danish every other known means
OF relief, but 1t would go farther, IL
permitted and invade the sacred pre-
cincts of the individual home and conn
pei all to bow to the medical TRUST.
There are people, intelligent, thinking,
well informed people. thousands OF
them. In every state in the union, who
after exhausting every possible source
Of relief known to the old school ply
stefan. and after having been given
up to die as hopeless sufferers, have
found permanent relief and health, re-
newed life and energy hope and re-
stored efficiency in lines of relief re-
nudiated as fraud" by these all-wise
advocates Of the medical monopoly.
It ought not to be necessary to re-
sort to Misrepresentation and invectlve
to sustain any theory capable Of stand
ing on its own merits. The people OF
this country are temperamentally so
constituted that they win never SUBJ
nit to be deprived Of the right Of re-
sorting to the means of relief from
suffering which appeals to their indi-
vidual judgment This is more es-
pecially true in cases where matelria
medica confesses It's inability to af-
ford relief or has failed to afford re-
lief.
The people OF this country are going
to submit to no medical tyranny or
trust, or monopoly OF any kind They
ARE not going to deliver their liberties
into the hands Of men who, while
forced to confess their own inability
TO afford relief from suffering. would
nevertheless prohibit citizens from a
free exercise Of individual Judgment
This proposed medical monopoly con-
stitutes the most tyrannical and gt-
granite effort to throttle personal IL
Eberty ever undertaken. and 1t will meet
with the public rebuke which 1t de-
serves. Human cupidity and self in
terest have in this particular quite
oveIsreached themselves.