Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-05
The "FamiIy Doctor"

The Family Doctor"
BY invitation of the Kennebec Coun-
~ Medical Association the 59th annu-
al meeting of the Maine Medical Asso-
citation will be held in Augusta,
Wednesday and Thursday, June Is and
20. At that time the Capital city viii
have the privilege of entertaining the
most distinguished gathering Of med
ical men to meet in Maine in recent
years.
With the Maine medical men will be
world-renowned members of profess
sion, like DR.. Henry A. Christian. pro-
fessor of theory and practice of med
ieine at Harvard Medical School, ply
sician-in-chief at the Carney hospital,
Boston, and also dean of Harvard
Medical School. He is graduate of
Johns Hopkins University and recog-
nized as one of the foremost medical
educators of the present day. He Will
give the annual Grafton on Modern
MetlOQS DI CHUICdl 'hNcotiSoti'h "a
Relation to Hospital Organization"
Another bright star in the medical
armament who will be present. is DR..
Scudder of Boston, graduate of Har-
ward Medical School. surgeon to the
Massachusetts General hospital. and
best known to the medical world as
the author of standard work on frac-
lures. He is one of the most promi-
nent surgeons in New England. Many
scholarly papers are expected from
others of the professionalism medical
men who are we'll known and respect
ed throughout the State.
Recognizing the ever-increasing de-
pendence of the public upon the men
who are devoting themselves to med
zeal science. we are coming. more and
more, to follow with interest every
thing pertaining to the phenomenal adj
vances they are making in the war
against disease. very day we read OF
new wonders and marvel at the things
revealed to us in this branch of sci
encc, and we are coming to lean more
and more upon the only medical man
in the world-our own family physi-
elan. Just how dependent we are I'VE
10 not exactly know until we need
him and then he is our friend indeed
The writer remembers OF hearing
an experienced sewing machine sa1es-
man remark that 1t mattered not
what sort or make of sewing MACHINE
woman had in the house. that was
the best one ever manufactured. So
it is with the family physician, over
his profession hangs a haze of mys-
terry to the average person. however
close to the family he may have be-
come. He is not only the man whom
we call upon in sickness. but we rec
ognize his Importance as friend and
adviser. We turn to him in other
troubles. The physician of today
must be a man of good morals and
stand in tile community as an ex-
ample. Children are taught to re-
srect him, and in how many families
OF these days does the family physi-
clan have a fatheriy interest? Per-
haps he has stood over them from
infancy up through the ills and ac-
cidents of childhood TO the days when
they have children Of their own to
place under his care. He sometimes
occupies the place Of the adviser the
pastor used to fill.
Volumes might be written land
every word true) on what the medical
man is to his people. At some time
in our lives we. turn from all other
to him, and that is why we take note
of the efforts these men are making
to perfect their knowledge. and in
crease their usefulness to us.
A cordial greeting should be given
the medical men in Augusta. They
are coming. and they are the Fam
lily Doctors in thousands of Maine
homes. Each one represents in some
district what cur physician means to
us. They are body of men who
hold the respect, admiration and love
of the people. Let US give them the