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40 SPECULUM (e) other grounds not particularised, but including- (i) treating or attending patients while under the influence of drink, (ii) abuse of dangerous drugs or abuse of privileges conferred on medical practitioners by the legislation covering dangerous drugs, (iii) commercialisation of a secret remedy, (iv)) gross and/or prolonged neglect of duties and disregard of personal responsibilities to patients, and (v) improperly obtaining or attempting to obtain payments from the National Health Service without entitlement. In Australia (outside Commonwealth territories) the control of medical practice is a function of the States and each State appoints a Medical Board in the terms of its Medical Acts which, basically, follow the pattern of the British Acts. His name became a byword In the term "pasteurisation" the name LOUIS PASTEUR, founder of microbiology, has become a household word. Pasteur's studies revealed the function of micro-organisms in such processes as organic decay and fermentation. Today, with the modern bacteriological processes employed in the KRAFT laboratories and kitchens, the work started by Pasteur lives on in a great Australian enterprise. 40 KRAFT FOODS LIMITED KR43 Under the Medical Acts of Victoria the Governor-in-Council appoints a Medical Board of not more than nine medical practitioners. The duties of the Board are to register persons holding recognised qualifications and to maintain a Medical Register. The Medical Act of 1928 (the principal Act) empowered the Board to remove from the Register the name of any person convicted of felony or misdemeanour, but in 1933 its powers were extended to include the power to erase or remove from the Register the name of any registered person (a) convicted of a felony or misdemeanour, (b) guilty of infamous conduct in a professional respect, or (c) who is an inebriate within the meaning of the Inebriates Act 1928. The term "infamous conduct in a professional respect", however, as stated in the Act "does not include any conduct which either from its trivial nature or from the surrounding circumstances does not in the public interest disqualify a person from practising his profession." Further, in Victoria an appeal may be made to the Supreme Court against a decision of the Board. It will be seen, therefore, that following the passage of the 1933 Act, the Medical Board of Victoria was given powers equivalent to those possessed by the General Medical Council, but the only disciplinary power it possessed was the power of deregistration. Subsequently, in 1950 the legislature saw fit to amend further the Medical Acts providing that the Board, after finding a medical practitioner guilty of infamous conduct CRYSTAPEN V and VK TABLETS Phenoxymethyl Penicillin Tablets As the FREE ACID in 60 mg, 125 mg, and 250 mg. potencies or as the POTASSIUM SALT in potencies equivalet to 125 mg. and 250 mg. respectively GLAXO LABORATORIES (AUST.) PTY. LTD.
SPECULUM 41 in a professional respect could, if that conduct was not of sufficient gravity to warrant removal from the Register, (a) reprimand that person, or (b) suspend his registration for such period as the Board thinks proper. What then is the nature of the charges on which doctors appear before the Disciplinary Committee of the G.M.C.? In descending order of frequency they are: drunkenness, advertising and/or canvassing, fraud, misuse of drugs, and adultery or improper conduct with a patient. In many cases the alleged misconduct is of a minor nature and does not lead to erasure, but between 1901 and 1955 two hundred and seventy-seven doctors were erased-26% for adultery or improper conduct with a patient, 19% following convictions for abortion, 15% concerned with drink or drugs, 10% for advertising or canvassing and 30f7( from other causes. In our own State in the last 20 years some half dozen doctors have been de-registered, but none in relation to improper conduct with a patient. Perhaps it is realised here more than in Great Britain that you can make your mistress your patient but not your patient your mistress. In one Victorian case erasure followed a charge of covering an unqualified person; in another a charge of obtaining money from a patient on the false representation that the fee of a consulting surgeon was considerably higher than that actually charged; and, in a third case, the name of a registered practitioner was erased following proof that he had left his practice in the care of an unregistered person and supplied that person with death certificates signed in blank, together with signed blank prescriptions for "free medicine" under the National Health Act. It should be realised that bodies such as the G.M.C. and the Medical Boards of the Australian States have been set up not for the protection of doctors, but for the protection of the public and, quite properly, the community, through the legislature, insists that every medical practitioner, while given certain privileges by virtue of his registration under the Medical Acts, has obligations to the community and must maintain a high standard of conduct. SPINX- King Farouk had been ousted as titular head of Egypt by the powers that be. We can only assume that this did not please him very much. Nevertheless, while in exile, he summoned his legal aides and instructed them as follows: To show the people that I carry no grudge and bear no malice, I wish to donate a million dollars to a University in Egypt. There is but one condition—it must be named after me. I want it called . . FAROUK U! * A Stride Girls who eat their vegetables have legs like this: ! ! Girls who ride horses have legs like this: ) Girls who get drunk have legs like this: ) ( Girls who use good judgment have legs like this: X * * Upon seeing a little girl leading a cow along a country road, the Parish Minister asked: "Little girl, where are you taking the cow?" "To the bull," was the reply. "Can't your father do it?" questioned the Minister, somewhat taken aback. "Nope," said the girl. "Only the bull." * * * Proud father, after twenty years of marnotice of the fact. On his return it was disriage, went to the local paper to insert covered that the advertisement had cost him £40. "What did you tell them?" asked his astonished wife. "Well," he replied, "I told them the name of the father and mother, the name of the Hospital, and the name we are giving the child. And when they wanted to know how many insertions, I told them three times a week for twenty years." —S.U.M.J. * * * Then there was the man who divorced his wife because he thought all his friends had it in for him.
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