The Doctor's Dilemma -
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The results of the questionnaire circulated to the medical p sion by the British Medical Association and the British Institut Public Opinion reveal a majority opinion lying somewhere be the official attitude of the B.M.A. itself and the Government's posals in the White Paper on a National Health Service. As contributor suggests, in an analysis of the replies on another the rank and file of the profession seems prepared for a g measure of direction than the Council of the B.M.A., without ready to go the whole way with the White Paper. It is in matter of administration that there is greatest dissatisfaction the Government proposals and greatest agreement within the 133 The majority would favour direct representation of doctors health workers, university medical faculties and voluntary hosp on joint boards, together with the local authorities, and strongly likes administration purely by local authorities. Apart from fundamental issue, the profession as a whole appears to accelm Government's aim, and the general principle that all citizens's have the right to free medical services, including hospital facili It also accepts the principle of health-centres providing all of "first-line" preventive and curative measures, and would the buying and selling of general practices to cease. In all respects, the majority of doctors are nearer to the White Paper to the B.M.A. It is of some significance that service and sai doctors are noticeably more solidly in favour of the White than are specialists and general practitioners.
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