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PERTH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1944.
SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR.
Archbishop Warns Against Subjugation By Tyrannical State
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Blueprints For the Future Based on R egimentation Opposition to Socialisation of Medical Services
dards themselves. What concerns us gravely is that their Catholicity and their autonomous control must be
her,' a compulsory National Socialist medical organisation which aimed at
the complete control of the
medical
profession, sand the imposition of Namaintained.* "Nor can we favour any standardised tional -Socialist ideas of medical ethics. system of medical control in which the With a remarkable display of professervices of doctors would be zoned to sional unity, 97 per cent. of the Dutch doctors positively refused to join the the public, as our present requirements The Nazis then tried to of milk and bread are regimented. It 'Chamber.' force them into it by enrolling their revoluthe that is not difficult ..to see tionary proposals to make the medical names without consulting them, and deprofession a branch of the civil service, ducting the subscription from the saland zone its services to the public, aries paid by the State for health inwould often impose an intolerable bur- surance work. In reply to this move, the doctors themselves renounced their den on the consciences of Catholic panever as immortal souls. Yet, if our tients. There are many circumstan- right to practise, actually striking their ' We have been assured by the highon qualifications off their notepaper, and be must proceed a patient security life when ces in est authorities that the fruits of victory planners for social quite free to seek the services of a doe - taking down their brass plates. Comare to include a guarantee of freedom the assumption that clinics are substitutes for chastity, or that creches can tor whose medico -moral ideas are not plete confusion resulted. Although of conscience and freedom from want. some of the leaders were arrested, they most religious These things are certainly worth fight- supplant the family circle, their secur- in conflict with the patient's The beliefs. Catholic people will never were released after a few days. ing for," said his Grace Most Rev. J. brilliant achievements in social ity will have been purchased ht a ter- willingly consent to a system which 'Physicians' Chamber' was powerless; D. Simonds, D.D., Ph.D., Coadjutor epidemics threatened, some services and in forces a patient to accept the Archbishop of Melbourne, speaking to rible cost to the nation's soul. The Nazis were) of a medical man .who may have no places riots resulted. Danger in Medical Control. 600 members of the Holy Name Society Auson report a ago scruples about destroying the life of forced into capitulation, and the docmonths "A few a reon at St. Ambrose's, Brunswick, eventually reinstated tors were on their was pre- an unborn child, or whose ideas on the cent Sunday. "But it is necessary to tralia's future health services by sanctity of marriage relation§ are ab- own terms, which were simply the remember," Archbishop Simonds con- sented to the Federal Government adother right to practise without reference to tinued, "that the responsibility of the joint committee appointed tosecur- horrent to the patient. On the hand it would be intolerable that a the control of the 'Chamber, 'and to folvise the Government on social fighting for these ideals is not confined excela pa- low their own principles of medical to treat doctor should be forced to the members of the combatant for- ity. The report contains some tient who makes demands upon him ethics, which were in violent conflict Those of us who have not been lent suggestions for the improvement ces. that are inconsistent with his lofty with the bestial Nazi practices. The called upon to take a share in the ac- of the people's health, which everyone for ideals of medical practice. There are reasons for their refusal to co-operate tual hostilities against the external foe should applaud, but there is causedocuthe of features very many problems of a medical - with the National -Socialist control were in certain are no less bound to resist every force alarm is definitemoral nature that profoundly affect the summed up in this fine sentence: 'The that threatens our liberties on the ment. Its whole viewpoint doctor sees in the attempt to Defeat of the external ly materialistic, and the mentality of patient as well as the doctor, so there Christian home front. towards much should be allowed as much freedom in force him into this organisation an asaggressor will prove to be a Pyrrhic the planners inclines too the sault upon the relation with his fellow. as there in adviser especially a medical of choice regimentation, the State to victory if we allow our future lives men which has been entrusted to him For exis in the choice of a spiritual counselbe subjugated by a tyrannical State matter of medical services. God.' It may be confider tly ex by lor. control that would be little better than ample, the committee asks the Govern, pected that the medical profession cf fighting ment to institute 'a full-time salaried now Regimentation Resisted. the tyranny we are medical service for the Commonwealth, "It is gratifying to learn that the Australia will be just as strong, and abroad. with standardised uniform hospital pro- parent body of the British Medical As- equally successful, in resisting any atBlueprints for Post-War. brand sociation is determined to resist any tempt to impose an Australian "The task of winning the war," Arch- vision.' National-Socialism upon its noble Radical Scheme. in England to regiment the of attempt bishop Simonds added, "naturally takes "This is a matter on which Catholics profession in a way that would exclude calling. priority over all other national anxieI fear the free choice of a doctor. At the ties, but the preparations of blue prints should have something to say. Sacrifice for Freedom. that the committee has been influenc- same time, the association is ready to for our post-war life may be said to "I sincerely hope," said Archbishop co-operate in producing a scheme which Simonds, in conclusion, "that the dynarank as a good second amongst our pre- ed in its decisions by the radical Now, there is scheme of medical control advanced by would make available for every indivi- mic spiritual power which has enersent pre -occupations. the always a risk that plans of reconstruc- a minority body in England called Ac- dual all necessary medical services, gised this parish during the last month general and specialised, in private will not now be allowed to wane. We tion that are made during wartime will 'Socialist Medical Association.' body, both be unduly coloured by the abnormal cording to the proposals of thisby the homes as well as in institutions. Its must not relax in our duty of humble owned members attach great importance to prayer, especially during these times, loss of personal liberty that war condi- all hospitals should be We Australians have State and controlled by some form of the right of patients freely to choose for many dark days still lie ahead of tions impose. dealso It Corporation. the National during ourselves their doctors; for, as their report claims, us. We know that the shadow of becheerfully resigned present crisis to a condition of regimen. mands that all doctqrs and other medi'unless the physician has the confidence reavement is destined to fall on yet -time whole become shall of his -patient, he starts with a handi- many of our homes, as the bitter price tation that is quite foreign to all our cal personnel and Service, Medical State of a officers But citizens. past experience as free cap that renders successful treatment of ultimate victory is paid in the blood a patient by a doctor of free choice the human of regimentation -time war less likely . hence, the right of the this of young Australian men and women. patient to change his doctor, and of a Every life that is lost is a heavy sacribeings, as if they were a vast mass of should be excluded. Principles. Catholic war accept a patient should fice for a young nation like ours. But to not doctor raw material to feed the inexorable "We Catholics can never allow our be safeguarded.' With this contenmachine. is evidently taken by some offered their control to tion, the Catholic conscience is in cont the sacrifices are being willingly planners as an excellent model on hospitals to surrender to ensure that the free and independent authority that does not respect the plete harmony. any which to build our post-war conditions shall of Australians typical character The basic principles of the principles for which they were founded. of life. never be subjugated to any form of Dutch Doctors Defeat Nazis. be no objection, of course, can There CommandGod's of and law natural equip"A notable fight against total regi alien slavery." ments, and the Christian conception of to the standardisation ofathospital the highest mentation of medical services has althe dignity of, man, rarely enter into ment and treatment GOOD NEWS-Latest Enamel Gas existing hospitals ready been fought and won in Holland. the various plans for social security. possible level. 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