The significant fact that had come about in the last few years was that the State had recognized those facts, and had already authorized local authorities to do something about it. The medical profession itself had come to the same conclusion, and in recognizing those facts was constantly adding to the number of branches 6f medicine open to its members.
In the process of the developments which had taken place there had been quite naturally a considerable amount of haste and therefore of waste, and ne one could deny that the present condition was one of extraordinary little ce-ordination. As he saw it the time had now come when the methods of practice, both of the members of the profession and of the hospital, had to be reviewed and perhaps revised.
The hospital must become a centre of a health service. It must extend its real official field of action outside its walls to a much greater extent and it must have much greater executive powers; it must draw into its service large numbers of doctors in general practice and give them a real share in the activities of the service both inside and outside the walls of the institution He was anxious to see. what was also inevitable, y considerable increase in the staffs of the hospitals, "I think that the chief enemy of good medicine," he continued, "is the necessity of working against time. 4 believe that a doctor in a hurry is a menace to his patients. I have a little fear! that some of the older hospitals may have too close Pfachment to their great tradition
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