The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1915-04-17
Dr.. 'COnkey
Endorsed By
Medical Men
Arrangement BY Judge Stuart Stirs
Up Maui Doctors Friends Say
Can Disprove Charges of NAL
practise.


Judge Stuart has the Medical Society
of Hawaii on his trail, scalpel in hand,
and the anesthetics have been left
at home. The physicians of the Ter
ritory claim that the third judge of
the first circuit has injured DR.. w.
f. McConkey of Maui and done an in
justice to the Paia hospital of Maui,
and they propose seeing that justice
is done the doctor and the institution.
At the regular meeting of the asso-
citation, held on Friday evening, the
charges made against Doctor McCon-
key from the bench by Judge Stuart
were brought up and the general in
dignation felt by the physicians was
voiced.
Resolution Is Adopted.
The matter ended in the passage of
the following resolution:
WHEREAS, On March 23, 1915,
the Hon. Thomas B. Stuart, Third
Judge of the Circuit Court of the First
Circuit, rendered a decision granting
a new trial to the plaintiff in the case
of M. A. Martin versus A. A. Wilson,
and in this decision which was pub
lished in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
on March 29 1915, the said Judge
Stuart made serious and deliberate
attack upon the professional charac-
ter and standing of DR.. w. f. McCon-
key, a member of this society, charg-
ing him with negligence, ignorance,
wrongful practice, and other profes-
sional misconduct, and stating in con
clusion that in his personal opinion
If tried upon the merits, Doctor Nc
Conkey would be found guilty of NAL
practice as to his conduct of this
case; and,
WHEREAS, The said Judge Stuart
in the same decision made charges of
similar nature against the Paia Hos
pital, it's management and it's staff of
nurses; and
Charges Reflect Dscredt.
WHEREAS. The said charges
clearly tend to bring discredit upon
and to injure the standing of Doctor
McConkey and the Paia Hospital in
the community; and,
WHEREAS, The society believes
that such charges upon the part of the
said Judge Stuart are not sustained OF
warranted by the evidence in the trial
of the case; now, be it therefore
"RESOLVED, That the Medical So
ciety of Hawaii, through it's executive
committee, take steps as are neces
sary TO secure to Doctor McConkey
and the Paia Hospital, reparation fol
the injury and injustice which have
been done to them by the said pub
lished decision and charges Of said
Judge Stuart"
The executive committee of the
medical association, acting under the
resolution, is now laying the founda
ton for further action
Other Friends Also.
Dr. McConkey has no lacking of in
dignant hackers also among his
friends outside the medical profession
and in fact the whole matter has
aroused much interest all over the ter
ritory. The Hawaii Herald prints edi
torially the following defense of The
Maui doctor and the hospital of which
he is the head:
A Bitter Attack.
DR.. Wilbur McConkey, of the P9if
plantation hospital is man who, fol
almost thirty years has practised hi.
profession in these islands. He is
known as the guardian angel of al
who are sick or IN distress. He ha!
the confidence of all those who have
been under his care at any time. The
attack on his character as a doctor i!
deplored by those who know the ply
sician, and who have been treated b!
him. A more painstaking doctor doe!
not exist anywhere on this globe.
DR.. McConkey is in charge of tht
Maui Agricultural Company's planta
ton hospital. That institution is KEEP
up at great expense by the manage
ment of the plantation. The institu
ton is splendid one and is run OF
up-to-date lines. The head nurse il
a splendid woman who is looked upol
as being almost a doctor. The hospi
tal is not a government one and Dr.
McConkey in addition to his duties a
the institution, has to care for ever!
plantation laborer on the big suga
estate. He daily visits the camps, an,
il is upon his shoulders that lies tn,
responsibility of the sanitary condi
ton OF the whole plantation.
The many friends of DR.. McConke.
feel that, in the attack upon the doc
tors medical character, a grave in
Justice has been done. The people o
Maui, especially, must feel hurt owe
the matter. The hardworking 1octo
is dear to them all and the attack
coming from man who is a strange
in the group, is the worst cut of al
-SAeS