Arizona republican., 1920-11-15
PUBLIC MEE |NC
 IF SURGEONS. TO BE HELD TONIGHT
Everybody Invited To Hear Noted Speakers At Ses- sion of American College Of Surgeons Here-Two- Day Program

oOHle or the country best Known surgeons and instructors in surgery will meet at the high school auditori um at o'clock tonight to open a two- day convention of the Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons. The session is noteworthy from the fact that 1t is the first annual meet ing of it's kind to be held in the Ari- zona section and because of the broad scope of it's program which holds an interest for the layman as we'll as the professional The public is invited to attend.
 Headquarters for the convention are being maintained at the Hotel Adams where all fellows and guests are re- quested to register upon their arrival here. Surgical clinics will be con ducted at the St. Joseph hospital from 9 o'clock this morning until noon. when the visitors will be entertained at the golf course and taken for motor rides about the valley.
 John G. Bowman, director of the American College of Surgeons; Dr. Franklin H. Martin, secretary general of the American College of Surgeons; Dr. Frederic A. Besley. professor of surgery. Northwestern University med | ical school, and others prominent in | their profession arrived last night. These men will speak at similar con- l ferences to be held in San Francisco Salt Lake City and Denver.
 | According to Mir. Bowman. this met 1 ing in Phoenix is one of series of public meetings to be held in every state in the union and every prov ince in Canada for the purpose of pro- noting improvement in the practice of surgery, to afford the best service known to the profession and to en- tighten the public along the lines oi preventive medicine.
 The meeting tonight will be oper to all and the addresses will be non- technical so that all may clearly un- derstand the facts which will be pre- sented and the valuable advice whicf will be offered. All expenses of these meetings is to be met by the centra
 office of the college.
 The value of these conferences wa: we'll brought out by MT. Bowen durinE the course of an interview last nigh
 when he said.
 To Enlighten People
 ''The time has come when the peo
 pie need intelligent medical leader , ship This meeting in Phoenix is on
 of series of public meetings 10 p
 held in every state in the union an' every province of Canada The Amer ican College of Surgeons, fellowship of over 5000 prominent surgeons il the United States, Canada and Soul
 America, pledged to improve the prac tice of surgery. to discourage ineom petent surgery, to afford the best serv ice known to the science of medicin
 for every man. woman and child il need of surgical treatment, and to en
 tighten the public along the lines o
 preventive medicine and public.
 If you must undergo serious sur
 gical operation in which, even unde I the best of conditions, there is a bi chance that you will not recover, mediocre surgery good enough? l the best of surgery too good for you i. Have you a right to the best2 Hay you a right to be we'll
 s "To answer these questions in tn way you want them answered is tn
 business of the doctors. They are dc
 ing more today to answer these Ques
 tions right than was ever true befoT ' in history. They are getting result q and the process of getting results e known as hospital standardization. You say that you have right y justice, a right to be free from VIC n lence. and so on. You create cou
 to protect your right to justice. Thei n is an analogy between the service
 the courts to the public and the serN O ice of the medical profession. whiC e makes clear what hospital standard ization is. He seeks out the facts an
 guided in some instances by a Jur a finally makes his decision. The enti
 procedure of each case becomes then 'l public record That record is subje " to review by other courts, up to u 's Supreme court. The entire process
 designed to establish justice; and Il li importance of it here lies in its pr ID visions against error or the miscarriai = of justice.
 i The Doctors Duty
 /, "In a similar way the medical pr Y fession is in service to the publ s@ 70 Each doctor is a judge. He ,presid = over our right to be well. If he is worthy of his trust he must be mi Q of integrity, of impartial devotion f his patients welfare, and of intel yo gence The requisite training Of
 doctor today is long and most eNa
 But this training is merely the pr
 requisite to practice. Tn practice [
 doctor must seek out the facts rel
 want to each case. Upon these fat A rest the diagnosis and treatment. os os CRETTH Y