The Rôle of the Works Doctor, or General Practitioner, in Industrial Medicine

With increasing industrialization in India, more attention is being paid to the Indian industrial worker and his health and well-being. It is a common fallacy that to obtain satisfactory results in industrial medicine highlytrained specialists and technicians are essential in the first instance. This is reflected in a tendency to send doctors overseas for prolonged training in industrial medicine. That a large number of such specialists will ultimately be required is undoubted, but the fact remains that the corner-stone in any comprehensive scheme to improve the health of the industrial worker is the ordinary works doctor, or failing him the general practitioner working in an industrial area.