Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-04-26
MEDICAL HOME
GUARD TOAD
RESERVE CORPS
State Society Takes Steps to Insure
Income for Families of Physicians
at the Front
PLEDGE CIVIC SERVICE ALSO

Wisconsin physicians and surgeons
who enlist in the Medical Reserve
Corps will have their private practice
protected during their absence by bro
Their physicians unable to go to the
front. The entire membership of the
Wisconsin State Medical Society has
been called on to do its bit" of un-
selfish service for the country, by or
ganizing what might be called a Home
Guard of Volunteers, as we'll as by
pushing to rapid completion full en-
rollment in the Medical Reserve Corps.
In call issued to the physicians of
the state through the various county
medical societies, DR.. Hoyt f. Dear
holt, president of the state society
urges upon the entire fraternity it's
obligation to share in the sacrifice
which is an inherent part of the pub
lie service demanded of medical men
by modern warfare The plan pro-
posed is an adoption of the one origi-
mated by the Maryland Medical and
Chirurgical Faculty by which physi-
clans VINO remain at home enter into
an agreement to turn over one-third
Of the receipts of practice secured
from patients who under normal condi
ions would have employed a fellow
practitioner engaged in active mill
tary service to the secretary of the
county society. The fund thus accru-
ing is to be held in trust until the re
turn Of the physician, or turned over
to his family on his order.
DOUBTLESS many potentially desir-
able medical officers from Wisconsin
have been restrained from volunteer
ing their services because of obliga-
tions to family dependents" says DR..
Dearholt in his service call. what
can and will the membership of your
society do to share in the sacrifice that
is an inherent part of public service
in such time, to make service easier
for those who should go?"
The county medical societies are
also serving as organization units in
the work of enrolling Wisconsin's
quota in the Medical Reserve Corps.
At the request of the state committee
on Medical Preparedness, sub-commit-
tees are being appointed by the vari-
Gus county societies to take charge of
the work, feature of the prepared
ness program being that members Of
the reserve shall be available for civ
ic and social as we'll as for military
service
The physicians of the state, for in
stance, stand pledged to render medi
cal aid to the families of enlisted men
wherever this is needed or desired by
the families concerned and for such
period as the supporter of the family
is directly or indirectly prevented from
engaging in his normal occupation.
The State Committee on Medical
Preparedness, appointed as a sub-com-
mittee Of the Central Committee of
the Congress of American Physicians
in cooperation with the National Coun-
ell of Defence, consists Of DR.. Edward
Evans of La Crosse, Chairman; DR..
Hoyt E. DearhoIt of Milwaukee. Pres
ident of the State Society; DR.. Rock
Sleyter Of Waupun, Secretary of the
State Society; DR.. G. V. / Brown, DR..
J. L. Yates and Dr. ]. R. McDill Of
Milwaukee; DR.. J. Gregory Cornell Of
Oshkosh; DR.. r. H. Jackson Of Madi-
son and DR.. W. T. Sarles Of Sparta.