An editorial in the current issue of Lancet, organ of the British medical profession, criticizes the cry that the profession is being overcrowded as a result of an alleged influx of Jewish doctors from Germany and a threatened influx from Austria.
Lancet points out that since 1933 only 187 medical refugees from Germany have been allowed to settle and practice in Great Britain. It emphasizes, however, that their concentration in the Harley Street field of consultation is in a field already overcrowded, and adds there is a touch of unfairness in this competition traceable to the public’s belief in the superiority of foreign doctors.
The prosperity of these doctors, the editorial asserts, is weakening the desire to help refugees as a class, but the alternative for such help is termed a further degradation of English tradition. The profession is suffering from wrong distribution rather than from overcrowding, the editorial contends.
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