TY  - JOUR
T1  - A protest against the arrogant surgeon specialist
AU  - Vaughan CC
Y1  - 1909/10/30
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.02550180059013
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1501
EP  - 1501
VL  - LIII
IS  - 18
N2  - To the Editor: 
    —I wish to express my views in regard to the present agitation which is being voiced by some of our older practitioners with reference to a special course in surgery for younger men. I at least have the courage of my opinions and in justice to myself and many others engaged in general practice who are called on to do surgery when occasion arises to call a halt on the so-called specialists in surgery, who wish to claim the field entirely for themselves, and on one plea and another enter a protest of incompetency against their competitors.What right may I ask has any one engaged in the practice of medicine or surgery to say how much the other man shall do, or not do? Are we not all licensed under the same state laws and are not our qualifications equally as valid as the men who
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.02550180059013
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02550180059013
ER  -