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These parasites and their accomplices give pause to the thought that human nature is being purged of cruelty. Plain thuggery and crimes with special motives of enmity are not so sickening as the homicides of these impostors, who set up as physicians and surgeons knowing that they are more likely to kill than cure.
To find here and there a man so perverted as to make a profession of malpractice is not staggering, but that an organized service could exist to foist fake doctors on the country would challenge credibility if the facts which have already come out did not support the charge."
Quackery in surgery or medicine is no new thing, but these disclosures are important and disturbing in their revelation of the extent to which quackery • has been made an organized business. The Connecticut investigation should lead to a general inquiry. Moreover, the various medical societies should take the initiative, for the public looks to them for protection against these dangerous pretenders. This matter, which has become a most serious sca*dal, should be probed to the bottom.
It is quite manifest that the laws of Connecticut are decidedly lax in regard to the licensing of physicians. If they were not, it would have been impossible for the 'diploma mill' in Missouri, a State which is the seat and centre of this business of foisting false 'doctors' on the community, to insinuate its 'graduates' into medical practice in the East through the agency of a Connecticut licensing board. it may be that the laws of more States than Connecticut, and including Massachusetts in the list, are too lax along this line. The public in every part of the Union is entitled to protection against the operations of fakirs who pretend to be doctors, when they are not, and who are likely at any time to cause untold suffering and death.
The State of Missouri has reason to be thoroughly ashamed of its record, now long and ghastly in the making of bogus physicians and surgeons. Connecticut certainly does not want to incur a "Similar shame. The people of that State should be aroused to a contemplation of the discreditable effects of the laxity of the State's laws. It is time for Connecticut to clean house.
The quack, to be sure, we shall no doubt always have with us. There will always be a numerous class of sufferers who prefer the chalatan. No State can endow its citizens wkh common sense. But the State can at least prevent such wholesale exploitation of the credulity of "the ignorant as now prevails.
In the Connecticut-Missouri scandal, a striking lesson in the propriety of setting up a single State examining board, and asking the medical profession to keep an eye upon its standards. Connecticut has had six boards, with a resulting lack of responsibility.
Standards of medical education in the United States are now at a safe height. School after school, State board after board, has adopted the rule that two years' collegiate work shall be required before admission to the medical course, till it is in general force. The American Medical Association and the Council on Medical Education declared in 1916 for a standard of four years' actual medical training, followed by one year in hospital, and this has been widely accepted. But we still have to guard against scoundrels who are outside the law, and against representatives of various pseudo-scientific 'isms' who try to climb over the law.
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