THE MEDICAL SCHOOL AND THE NEW YORK REGENTS

Some surprise has been occasioned by the widely published announcement that the New York State Board of Regents had decided to debar future graduates of the Dartmouth Medical School from practicing in the state of New York. It has naturally been supposed that the action is connected with the long campaign directed against the smaller medical schools of the United States. Such, however, is not the case.

It appears that the Board of Regents in New York require the filing, each year, of elaborate statements by medical schools whose graduates may become candidates for admission to the ranks of the doctors in the state. Some of the statistics called for, not being imme diately available, caused delay in the ill ing of these statements, not only by Dartmouth, but by twenty-one other medical schools. Without further warning, the delinquent institutions were put under the ban and a list of them published. -The praise which, in consequence, the Regents may gain for stern and unflinching efficiency, is largely counterbalanced by the indiscriminate harm which their unexplained action may well have occasioned. The filing of the required papers will, no doubt, raise the embargo, but it will hardly serve to counteract an unfortunate impression widely circulated.

That the record of the Dartmouth Medical School in New York State is a good one becomes evident from an investigation of the work of its graduates in that state. In all, there are sixty or more doctors 'practicing in New York, Many of them occupy positions of prominence and responsibility. Among others George V. Foster '82, is visiting physician of St. Andrew's Convalescent Hospital, New York City; O. A. Gordon '85, is visiting surgeon at St. Mary's Hospital; Harrie S. Baketel '95, is editor of the Medical Times; C. S. Little '96, is making a national reputation as superintendent of the New York State Institution for the Feeble Minded; J. E. Mansfield '97, is president of the staff of the Oswego City Hospital; A. P. Voislawski '97, is highly successful as throat and nose specialist in New York City; H. C. Goodwin '00, is superintendent of the Albany Hospital. These are names taken more or less at random. They seem, however, to indicate the important place which the graduates of the Dartmouth Medical School are occupying in the medical profession in New York. It is unfortunate that a technicality should have been made use of to injure the reputation which years of quiet usefulness have built up.