Medical Practice in Modern England

Abstract

BEDICALJOURNALone cannot help feeling that a crisis could easily have been avoided if there had been greater awareness at high level of the possible effects on the public health service of the imbalance created by recent awards in other sections of the profession.One is forced to conclude that the Government will attempt to avoid its commitments in regard to the public health service, and it may well be that the present uncertainty will, to a limited extent, effect a " shake out " into general practice.For many of us, however, such a course would be an unacceptable and unpalatable admission that the not inconsiderable personal sacrifice involved in obtaining the statutory qualification (D.P.H.) had been a pointless