PAPERS OX MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH 



to join a medical society. This is the first time he has 

 heard it mentioned. In the last twenty-fivi . our 



medical organizations have increased in membership, 

 efficiency and influence more than in the preceding 



seventy-rive years. Has the medical student been told 

 anything- about medical organizations, their pur; 

 and advantages, and that it is his duty and privilege to 

 join the comity, state, and national bodies just as soon as 

 he is eligible ! Xot that I have ever heard. I recently 

 had occasion to talk to a senior medical student of one 

 of the leading medical schools of the country. In the 

 course of the conversation, I mentioned the American 

 Medical Association. To my surprise, he hadn't the 

 slightest idea what it was. I said to him, "In the four 

 years you have been in college have you never heard the 

 American Medical Association mentioned. 1 " He said. 

 "Xo, Doctor, except I remember one spring one of our 

 professors dismissed his class early because he had to 

 catch a train to go the American Medical Association 

 meeting, but I hadn't any idea what it was. That's the 

 only time. I heard it mentioned." 



Christ said to his disciples, "The children of this 

 world are wiser in their day and generation than the 

 children of light." B. J. Palmer, the founder of chiro- 

 practic, may be short in science but he's long in common 

 sense. Every student who matriculates at the Daven- 

 port Chiropractic School joins the National Chiropractic 

 ciation the day he enters the school. We let four 

 thousand of the brightest and best trained of young men 

 spend from four to seven years in school studying medi- 

 cine, and send them out to become the doctors of the 

 future and never tell them a word about our own organi- 

 zations. After they have had four or rive hard yea: 

 bumps and mistakes we go around and try to organize 

 them. Brilliant idea! But why not begin to organize 

 the medical profession at the door of the medical school? 

 use, isn't it ? 



Finally, after enduring all the knocks and rude awak- 

 enings incident to the first years of practice, comes the 

 w. The young doctor is sued for malpractice. 

 It maybe inspired by a jealous business rival, stimulated 



