—In reply to the letter from a Polish doctor, who
cannot under- d why foreign doctors are not employed over here, I should to explain that the shortage of British doctors in certain parts the country and in certain branches of medicine is entirely artificial. begin with, he is mistaken in supposing that there are too few ors in bombed areas ; experience has shown that there is a much er exodus of patients than of doctors from bombed areas, and e doctors who are left behind are more or less idle. There are res of doctors in London alone who would like to join the armed s, but who have not yet been called up. They cannot leave elr towns and assist the overworked doctors in the reception areas thout sacrificing nearly all the capital which they have sunk in ying a practice, much of which capital is borrowed money. I ow personally a very eligible doctor who volunteered for the R.A.F. May, 194o, and who is still a civilian.
There are also a very large number of doctors in the Emergency edical Service of the Ministry of Health who are practically idle, they are waiting for the district in which they work to be bombed. at there has been this mismanagement is, I think, largely the t of the doctors themselves, for their Central Medical War Com- tee was appointed by doctors to supply the demands of the Services medical help. Too many doctors have been taken from the recep- -areas, and too few from evacuation-areas.--Yours faithfully,
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