PAPERS OX MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH _ " 



avoid the spectacle which we often see of learned physi- 

 cians, known throughout the country, appearing before 

 legislative committees and being made monkeys of by 

 shrewd, adroit quacks who did not have a fraction of 

 their knowledge but far exceeded them in ability to 

 present a subject to a lay audience. 



In the second year, an equal amount of time — one -hour 

 a week — should be devoted to a discussion of the social 

 side of medicine. Under this head would be discus 

 the relation of the individual physician and the medical 

 profession to society as a whole, both in previous genera- 

 tions and today: a discussion of the relation of the medi- 

 cal profession to other professions, as lawyers, ministers, 

 etc. : the relation of the allied professions of dentistry, 

 pharmacy, trained nursing, and the midwife ; the growth 

 of the social public health movement of the last twenty- 

 five years, including such organizations as the National 

 Tuberculosis Association, the American Society for the 

 Control of Cancer, the American Child Health Associa- 

 tion, and all of the other organizations, nearly one hun- 

 dred in number, which have developed in this field since 

 the beginning of the present century. The lack of reliable 

 knowledge on these subjects has not only caused much 

 confusion and division of opinion among physicians, but 

 has prevented the profession from exerting its united in- 

 fluence for the guidance of public opinion and the pro- 

 tection of the public health, as well as its own legitimate 

 interests. 



In the third year, an hour a week should be devoted to 

 the economic ;' medical practice. Business methods, 



systems of bookkeeping, and cost accounting, coi 

 methods of charging and collecting, as well as advi 

 investments, would be taken up. Here, also, would b 



■d the advantages and disadvant ; ment 



service, the Army. Navy, and Unil Public 



Health Service, public health and industrial work, as 

 well as such important economic problei h in- 



sure ntract practice, fee splitting, 



etc. 



The fourth, or senior year, should have an hour 



