Jewish physicians will be unable to practice as specialists if the draft of a law proposed by Dr. Franz Spina, minister of public works, is adopted. The draft would enable only such doctors to take the examinations as specialists who had previously been engaged as practitioners in government hospitals or municipal sick funds.
This is considered as a plan of restriction against the Jews since it is known that Jewish physicians are practically excluded from employment in the government hospitals. The creation of a union of Jewish doctors to combat this and other restrictions is planned.
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