Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-14
Cf1TDING THE DOCTORS.
Manson Journal

The publicS greatest complaint to-
day against the medical profession.
is its standard OF honor. Members of
the regular schools Of medicine Will in
many cases stand by each other in
stead OF protecting the sick patient
Let member Of your family be
sick. you become dissatisfied with the
doctor IN charge, and ask for coun-
ell, the chances are q hundred to one
that the doctor called into council will
endorse all that haA been done and
continue the same treatment Let an
outsider APPROACH the second doctor
and ask why he did not make a change,
when he knew It should have been
done. he viii be told that he could not
afford to offend the regular physician
It Is for this reason that It is al
most impossible to convict a doctor
Of malpractice. It cakes expert tes-
timony to convict . doctor. and 1t
Is almost impossible TO secure this.
Let an attorney make q mistake
and all the other attorneys will
jump on him. Let a doctor make
a mistake and tho other doctors help
him bury 1t out in the cemetery.
This may be professional etiquette.
but 1t does not look good to the
tr1eno8 OF C0e V1CI1E
Another complaint against the doc
tors by the public, 10 that the medi-
cal profession seldom II ever turns
a man out for incompetency, but let
one Of their members ovezUtep the eth
les. by boldly telling the people
what he can do, and they will do
their best to pound him into the
ground.
~, =. - A>,s.-> >h> -vo%n~s1op
il as bad of az Representative Miller
would have us believe. and on the 9TH
er hand we do not believe It should or
could be.
A NEAR GRANDsTAND PLAY.
ISioux City Journal
A girl notary public down In Des
Moines applied for q renewal Of her
what she carelessly took 70 be a new
certificate, but what later proved to be
only formal application blank. n
she filed it away in the belief that it
affidavits. Before the mistake was
and seal TO many anddavits. Included
consent petitions. When the mistake
was discovered, as Is usual in such
cases, legalizing act was passed by
both houses Of the legislature. Rep
resentative Fraley. Of Des Moines, who
introduced the leealizing act, did not
explain that the legality Of saloon
petitions a swell as other documents
was involved. Why should he? What
difference did 1t make what the docu-
ments were which had been invali-
dated thru no fault Of those who had
gone thru an the required legal forms?
When the fact became known that sa-
loon petitions were at stake some mar
row minded legislators made a fuss
over the fact that they had not been
told OF tine tIae :::a:%*'ee-a2ss=== &c @1,e en-
a.bling act. Governor Carroll decided
he would not sign the act unless II was
readopted by the legislature with full
knowledge Of what 1t meant The bill
was resubmitted to both houses. and
passed with only few scattering votes
against it. II It had not been passed
assorted injustice would have resulted
to many interests. Inasmuch as It IL
not customary to enumerate the docu-
ments affected in such legalizing acts,
which are freely passed by every legis-
lature, and as the fact that saloon PEE
tttions were involved made no differ
ence in the essential justice OF the
measure. Representative Fraley may be
acquitted OF any desire to Sneak over"
the enabling act In insisting that the
measure be resubmitted to the legisla-
ture Governor Carroll came az close to
1randstand play as the executive Of
flee has come since the promotion Of
Governor Cummins.