The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-06-11
A WeIl-Kn0wn Surgeon
Says the Thing the Country
Needs Is An Operates

friend who had the same 'uiiltilI anu
who procured a certain remedy at "a drug
store that fixed him up in jig time
Then the sick man viii 90 TO "a drug
store and ask for the remedy recon-
mended to him, but is likely to carry
away something the druggist has recon-
mended as lust as good, because 1t IS
an article made expressly for his cham
of stores.
The remedy viii fail % remedy ana
the sick man viii sit a doctor
Re will try the frs doctor for q tIme'
get no better change doctors, get no bel
ter. change doctors et no better ana
keep on changing doctors and getting ne
better until he comes upon one who W..
give him something like a hrotheriy M
terest.
This doctor will tell him i'm jify that
his case is not case for medicine oHt
for surgery and viii advise an operation
The sick man will decide at once, Of
course. that if he is to be operated on.
he will be operated on by the best sur
geon he can get
Consequently he will ask his physician
to recommend somebody out OF town.
Just why it is that people feel called
upon to go out Of town when they want
the best Of ANYTHING, is a thing that
has not been explained, at least TO our
knowledge.
Generally all a salesman for ANY
THING has to do is to tell the person
he is trying to sell an article that 1t Is
imported and that settles it.
He has made a sale.
There are Just as good surgeons in De
troit AS there are anywhere, bat there is
that idea Of so many people that We
have to contend with in trying to estab-
ish the fact.
We are not questioning here the abil-
ity of any of those outside men Of sci
ence who have by great skill accomplish
ed the seemingly impossible and won the
confidence of the world
We do not seek to take their well-won
spurs and regulations from men, for in-
stance. like the Mayo brothers. renowned
for the wonders they have worked with
the knife, and frequently in the practice
of the greatest Of the three graces.
The honest surgeon, conscious of his
own limitations. viii frequently say
This is case for more skilled and more
experienced hands than mine" and he
will recommend, very often, the Mayo
brothers.
The average doctor will admit that no
case has baffled science UNTIL IT
HAS BAFFLED THE MAYO BROTH
Frs.
The average layman knows enough
about the Mayo brothers TO realize that
a diagnosis of case by a Mayo is worth
giving a whole lot of consideration.
When there is something radically
wrong with the country we try nearly
everything by way of a remedy until
we finally get around to heroic treat
ment. or the very thing we should have
tried in the first place.
Some candidate for legislative Office
mounts a soap box, somewhere, and tells
us that he knows what the remedy is.
When he gets TO Washington, he finds
out that what he should try for us is
something just as good because that
is something the party has prescribed
with the welfare of the party a first
consideration.
We change congressman and get no
better, and change congressman and get
no better, until finally someone speaks
from his heart and in his real interest
for his fellows-for the people Of his
country.
1t is that service which The Times
would perform in this column today
Our country's system is a matter, just
at this time, Of much concern 70 every
body.
II has symptoms of stomach trouble
an emptiness which its physicians in
Washington may have discovered. but
for which they are mighty slow in pre-
scribing
1t has symptoms of being very much
underfed at a very critical time. when AN
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