The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-06-08
VENDORS
UNDER GUISE OF
DOCTORS SCORED
President of American Medical
Association Pays Respect to
Liquor Licensed Physician
RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN
City Rears Healthiest Children,
STOOLS Them Better Than $
Rural Communities

Boston, June S.-The promiscous
prescriber Of alcohol licensed as a
but whose ethical sense
would degrade a bartender, the per-
functory prescriber for fee, the ven-
der of habit-forming drugs, all are
educated criminals, social menace,
by posing as physicians, DR.. Hubert
Work, of Pueblo. Cello. president, told
the American Medical association con-
vention here today. n." .--..- F.
These physicians are tolerated by
the public" he continued. because OF
the integrity, efficiency and self-abnc~
CATION of a majority of medical men
so great that these derelicts almost
escape notice. .ssessTsn
~ sometimes fear thai n. }s.sS is5 II i;;ssp
as dictators III sssS 1tA
ters, when In reality W merely NM.
the demands of the public. W0ssh0uid
that numerically we are as
one in 800 among the peole and that
our calling has already been granted
manys privileges, some Of which are
being betrayed. II
physicians are Indifferent to quack-
cry as a competitor in all its phases
have no place in rational
They are adventures, sup
ported by people who court deception
for the excitement of it, and who are
lured by the mysteries Of ignorance.
"Thoughtful men believe that "A
crisis threatens established principles.
and that physicians must now earnest
ly address themselves to the cause ana
the prevention Of disease and disabil-
lty as the primary concept of medicine,
its principles, lest the
profession lose its esprit de corps, and
its place in public esteem. If Its mem
bers become piece workers, it may fail
Of public appreciation as an essential
economic factor in the preservation OF
the national wealth. because Of a de-
national health. Our medi-
cal outlook must then he based on pub
lie welfare: and the function Of the
physician should be not only to treat,
but also to prevent disease in the
families under his care, and in the
community of which he is a. part.
Exercises Functions.
years ago the general practitioner
conceived his duty to be that of a
healer only. He regarded disease as
Inevitable, II not indeed providentia'.
Later he advised his clientele how to
avoid 1t. Both Of these functions he
continues to exercise; but new field
presents itself; medical men must
now combat disease in the mass. With
In recent years our lay press has in
dtcated welcome interest in matters
pertaining to public health.
"Our people regard it in a new light,
IS a virile, organized force, quite in
dependent Of the sick chamber or hos
pital environment. They see in the
practice of medicine the possible ap-
plication OF civil morals by those skill
ed in healing-and more. They now
urge that it must include the large,
field Of civic service for those who are
we'll; for social morals should protect
against disease, as we'll as cure 1t, ana
business thrift has come to recognize
medicine as an essential in public poi
lev Il, A',; I9sE7H islnn ttr@ r. = H.
"The practice of medicine demon
ates some men to the exclusion of
many things that broaden and sweet
en- life. To boast of no knowledge out
side 9 speciality, to smother interest In
cultural arts or collateral sciences, 10
ignore the spiritual distinction be-
tween men and animals, Is to invite
deterioration and excIu-
sion from the highest concepts of the
w
3H Dcprecate Tendency.
mo thought is entertained of mini.
MIXING the importance of individual or
isolated achievements. wish, rather
to deprecate the tendency to attract
attention to them to neglect of the lar.
ger things In medicine, sonecessary to
retain public confidence in our pro-
fession, and to secure cooperation of
instead of their dissocia-
ton, now threatened, largely through
special societies, which is tending to
obscure medicine as a national asset.
"The city now rears the healthiest
children, and schools them better, Of
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