The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-09-01

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no M nfsi frfasfi ia arffe With thlt
tNi NHE iHld ihai Dr. would have 90 40
fn aa hu she arrangements we're made,
1nd nhaiiy said. We'll M son iusisi.
! will. bot ~ viii sisiu ~ ihn pleasure
{ nf ihp OCCASION That was the way
with Doctor Smith ne liked every
man within ten miles except Doctor
Jones, who was the ~ in enc ointment.
THAT man had destroyed The peace
" bic home BY making his wife listen
20 the things he had 90 SAY about other
doctors. Some time later I was called
into consultation with Doctor Jones and
/ when another physician became ncces.
sary, / suggested Doctor Smith. Te
started into 10 tell me number OF
I things In confidence about Doctor Smith
but I told him not 10 bother-DoetOr
Smith had told mo the whole thing and
al ! had to do was TO change the names
around.
awe found that this trouble orig.
mated at the medical colleges Tho
medical college system has been the
curse Of this country. I dom know
how we would get along without It.,
and certainly don't see how we have
got along with it.
"The man who has matricllated
in one OF these institutions has come
in contact with an atmosphere of
Islander and gets an idea that this is
part of the profession Then he goes
bat in n location with several other
old doctors who pretty soon convince
him that he is right in that idea.
"This is an unpleasant picture am
holding up to you but it is ancient his.
tory, as take it. 1 am honest In
painting this picture as / see it and
so help me God, intend to do it un-
til the doctors realize and face these
conditions. hope that some day some
one will paint the picture of my profess.
sion that I win be glad to hold up to
the world
"I know more doctors than any 500
men in the United States and have
had more opportunities of studying
them, at home and in Europe, than any
other men. There is another side to
this question, just as there are two
sides to the shield. I don t believe
} that the world has anywhere produced
J q higher type of citizen than the Amer.
: lean doctor. The doctors, and 1 know
this is true of Honolulu as well as
anywhere else, do more Chr stian char
ity than all the churches and religious
. organizations in the country. 1 dc
, not know what our poor would DO il
was not for the Doctors charity But
it is not charity as it ought to be, II
is rot organized charity ald doctors
have often to take blood money from
walters, mechanics and others on
salary.
Unfortunately our 1gliest side OF
the profession is presented to the pub
, lie. 1 thought that the ev | of diseord
, was confined to this profession but
: found that it was common to all an
: organized professions, newspapermer
not excluded. The lawyers alone have
always lived together in peace and har
mony. What has been the RESULT They
have ruled this country since Wash
ilgton. In the courtroom they are OPP
ponents, but beyond the courtroom they
, are all brothers. One day they art
pro-eonsul, the next day counsel for the
they have made and 1nmade the laws
as they chose"
Doctor Mccormack then stated that
} he had found two communities in the
} United States where discord was not
G apparent and added a high tribute tt
Q the harmony existing in Honolulu. g II
Q ever have an opportunity, he said
t'I am coming back and stay at least
i month to study how You do it."
5 Doctor Mccormack continued in 9
: more personal strain, speaking Of his
4 own personal experiences in the great
l work which has brought him here, will
/ degree of enthusiasm and belief il
his profession and its ideals that bode,
c well for the objects he is working for
S He mentioned the growth of the asso
citation from $4,000 to $4,000, ant
S quoted few of his experiences in tn,
t Central States when he was delegated
to find out what the trouble was will
+ the country doctors He found ou
r and his diagnosis, as he told it, was
: curious and instructive one.
i "We have possibilities to do NOR
for the American people than any othe
+ organization. y he continued Thi
4 local society means more to Honolulu
o than any other society in it and i
n should at once step into the field an,
{ put its hand under those doctors VIII,
t are working under those conditions
y mentioned and lift them into an un
Y derstanding of and means to scientif
Q medicine
t In discussing the number of doctors
I he stated emphatically that if ever,
!, one who called on a physician for ex
Q animation would get it there was no
g half enough doctors in the country
' Instead of getting the examination
! that he sbould.have, stated the speaker
the average person was merely t'loole,
l over" He mentioned one Southern
gentleman whose son was countr,
: practitioner in the Valley of Virgins
:. and of whom he was extremely proud
! This father once went the rounds witt
d the boy, who made "twenty eight call
/ before lunch and twenty-one after
t wards. You can imagine what kind o
medicine he practised," concluded tn
s doctor.
o In drawing his address to its con
9 clusion, Doctor Mccormack stated tina
}. he would like to see the local medica
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