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PnK THEHEiULD Wcrlnesdav November What happened to doc By CHARLIE GODFREY The question Where My Doctor Fllihenry White side pages which is put by author DeWitt Wilcox Is one thai could equal well be put by patients wives or legislators today Wilcox a distinguished phy London Is asking plaintively whatever has happened to the good old doc who made house calls diagnosed rare diseases with the aid of only a stethoscope and was a paragon of virtue and puritanical self dedica Hon The author goes to great trouble to explain the disap pearance of this species The blame Is laid at the door of too much education particularly research too much depend on laboratory work too many fancy sub specialties up the body medical and too many women In the profession Wilcox points out that as long as North American unlv allow students to take rather than lory core courses such as anatomy we do nothing but allow lazy students to just grow lazier permit the student to choose his own This Wilcox stales ages the student avoid he major clinical areas which are so necessary to the develop ment of a good doctor His definition of a good doctor is one who can make all the organs work in the harmony or good physical and mental heal th And to the author mind the only person who can do that is the physician internist that is someone who has taken four postgraduate in order to quality as a specialist in inter medicine This I the general doner he can only do a quarter of the work or the physician internist Nor is lhe doctor who is a specialist in family medicine This subspecialty according to Wilcox ties the doctor to a social unit the family that may not exist FLESH But the sub specialties area I the only group respomi ble for the present state of medicine doubt not that cox thinks medicine is in straits Look at psychiatrists They seem to abhor the flesh and are not genuinely interested in organic disease Most of tod should taken a degree in psychology Inch camel no responsibility for the care of the sick patient To set your mind at ease so that you can begin to answer the question in his book title Wilcox lists the types of doctors start the surgeons and the surgical that all of those take care at the ear nose throat brain nerves gynae cology plastic surgery ortho paedic urology etc After lifting the subspecial ties in order to put argil in its perspective Wilcox sets down a list of common but important that the doctor is called on to treat and then cites the most common errors made in performing the act According to him doctors don do too well They miss the difference between les and gall bladder all you have to do is take the time to do a white blood count and wall three or four days Some spec lalists don t Others don realize a worn en with chills and fevers could have thyroid disease Its easy I to diagnose by a simple mentation rate But one of the greatest drains on medicine he argues is the female doctor Accord to the author women strong enough they have an average working life barely onethird of that of a man and they comprise less than one per cent of the best clinical teachers in medicine surgery a le tries i His remedy for the shortage of doctors Limit female enrol Iment to five per cent of the medical class The book is well written entirely without intentional full of epigrams and anecdotes to show the interest fabric of medicine over the past hundred years Its case histories presented to illuminate specific points to be drawn from a cabinet of medical curiosities rather from real world or commonsense medical But In spite of the inadequa Wilcox is trying to make a statement that a Keels physicians legislators and pa There are many con in the current delivery of medical care The problem must When my doctor It a good question Unfortunately it In book Godfrey fanner mem ber fee total Legislature a specialist to physical SUPS BUYS ALL PRICES SHOWN IN THIS AD GUARANTEED EFFECTIVE THRU SAT DEC 3RD DART DISCO COOKIES We pick the best SUPER BUYS So you can too proof that AP will lower your food budget GEORGETOWN SINCLAIR AVE MONDAY thru THURSDAY FRIDAY 830 SATURDAY 830 EXCLUDING THE ONEQUAIT OPEN SAUCEPAN VALID UNTIL DECEMBER No litre rot Action Priced PEPSI 29 Plus 30c par Bottle Deposit CLIP THIS COUPON SAVE ON EKCO Proudly presents EKCO COOKWARE com mil on 5YEAR GUARANTEE This Weeks Feature 10INCH OPEN SKILLET A Vahtl ONLY 1199 No Other Purchase Required Start your set today Moms SOFT MARGARINE mm Fancy KERNEL CORN ANN PAGE KETCHUP B nmuwNtMgcrtkf WWttBWWWMW