"Res medica, res publica" : the profession of medicine, its future work and wage / by Willaim Ewart.

  • William Ewart
Date:
1907
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Credit: "Res medica, res publica" : the profession of medicine, its future work and wage / by Willaim Ewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    carefully concealed ; and the disguise invented as a veil is that puzzle of the laity—c professional etiquette.’ We cannot quarrel with our altruism, which is our chief distinction. But as it is at the bottom of our crisis, and as we cannot subsist on hard work and a proud title, plain common sense must be brought to bear. The Crisis in its Two Aspects—Economical and Professional. We are in the throes of a double crisis: an economical crisis which affects a large majority of our numbers, and a professional crisis which threatens a previously compact profession in its corporate capacity. The situation itself and its great factors are entirely new. The earliest symptoms were over- looked and subsequently misunderstood. They were treated symptomatically, without any reference to their cause, and the same symptomatic treatment runs risk of being repeated, as fresh symptoms con- tinue to break out in connexion with the individual and with the profession. As both crises have identical and reciprocating causes, no separate remedy can exist for either, and any drastic measures would be dangerous if one- sided. Before we can attempt to legislate for the future, we must grasp the inevitably progressive nature of our changes. The chief cause of the