"MEDICAL AID SOCIETIES AND THE PROFESSION."

The Medical Profession and First Aid

Greed and the medical profession.

O rganised medicine is not giving proper attention to the disturbing presence in the profession of a universal human trait: greed. Perhaps doctors' greed is less of a problem in Britain where an estimated 70% of the doctors are generalists, and reimbursement in the main is controlled by the national health system. Not so in the United States where 70% of doctors are specialists and an open heal...

Homoeopathy and the medical profession

PHILLIP A. NICHOLLS, Homoeopathy and the medical profession, Beckenham, Croom Helm, 1988, 8vo, pp. 298, £27.50. There are several useful historical accounts of homoeopathy in America, but very little has been published on the British story. Nicholls's book will thus become a stock item for courses on medicine in nineteenthand twentieth-century Britain. After discussing the relation between the ...

Medical Societies

confirmed. The Secretary announced that, as a result of a memorandum submitted by the medical members of council, the Council of the Society had sanctioned the expenditure during the next two years of a sum of Rs. 3,000 on the purchase of standard medical works as a basis of a medical reference library. With the large number of medical journals already received this will go far towards supplyin...

Evidence, the law and the medical profession.