THE DERIDED
SIR,—Your answer to my letter in your issue of May 22 begs the question. I did not dispute that the tax- payer has a right to make his voice heard on the question of medical education. What I do dispute is your suggestion that the claim of the profession for more money is contingent upon, or even related to, alterations in the medical curriculum. Similarly, I do not dispute that much more time in medical education should be devoted to mental illness; if not enough time is given to this subject, that is an error of omission. To admit that is a fur cry' from the error of commission with which you charge the medical schools, i.e., 'that they train doctors for the diseases they think people ought to have'—a statement for which I still await your evidence.
In short, .1 am not querying your views on the desirability of altering the medical curriculum, but I do suggest that one of the statements you make is wrong in logic and another in fact.—Yours faithfully,
BASIL LEE
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