American versus European medical education : a comparison of American medical college work with that of European medical schools, including some thoughts on free trade in medical diplomas of foreign manufacture / by Samuel O.L. Potter.

  • Potter, Samuel O. L. (Samuel Otway Lewis), 1846-1914.
Date:
1890
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Credit: American versus European medical education : a comparison of American medical college work with that of European medical schools, including some thoughts on free trade in medical diplomas of foreign manufacture / by Samuel O.L. Potter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEDICAL EDUCATION. A COMPARISON OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGE WORK WITH THAT OF EUROPEAN MEDICAL SCHOOLS. INCLUDING SOME THOUGHTS UPON FREE TRADE IN MEDICAL DIPLOMAS OF FOREIGN MANUFACTURE. Any American physician who is thrown into the society of European medical men, either at home or abroad, cannot fail to become sensible of a feeling of contempt for American medical educa- tion and persons, which pervades the European to such an extent that, polite as he may be, he is never able to wholly disguise it. This sentiment is most freely exhibited by medical immigrants to this country, by gentlemen who come here to settle after having received a foreign medical de- gree or diploma ; and many who show it most offensively are Americans by birth though of foreign parentage, who have been sent abroad for their medical education. If hailing from tjie German or Austro-Hungarian empires, the di- plomas' possessed by these gentlemen do not qualify them to practice medicine in the countries where they were obtained; for not one in a thousand of such medical immigrants possesses the certificate of the State examination (Staats- 1 Throughout this paper I shall use the word “ diploma ” in its common significance, the certificate of graduation in either Col- lege or University.