Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Medical Profession, the Medical Sects, the Law: The Address in Medicine, Yale University, 1889
The American medical profession has in it a multitude of rightly educated physicians, but it comprises also an enormous number who are but partially educated in their profession. Of all places in the universe, - ih America there are doctors and doctors.
The American medical profession cannot be in any degree held responsible for its condition, not merely because it has no power over its own members after they have entered, but especially because it has no control over the gates through which men ?ock into it. In some States, the law allows any one to set up as a doctor who wishes whilst where there is any law regulating the mode of entrance into the profession, - such law usually puts the power of granting the right to practice into the hands of the medical college. To be sure the medical college is nominally required to examine the candidates and to shut out the unfit. Almost any small group of physicians can.
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