Sra,—As a medical reader of The Spectator, I feel I
must enter a protest at the advice to the doctors to co-operate with and not resist the Minister of Health. The doctors feel that the Minister has given them a raw deal from the moment when, in framing the Bill, he refused to negotiate in any way with the Negotiating Committee of the British Medical Association. In the Bill itself he proceeded to scuttle many of the principles which the profession regarded as sacrosanct—principles which were eminently reasonable, and should have been considered. Seeing that the Bill is now "the law of the land," it is obvious that any negotiations undertaken at the present time can only be in connection with minor issues which are still undecided and which the profession regard as of little importance in comparison with their Charter of Liberty as embodied in the " principles " above mentioned. If the verdict of the profession goes against the suggestion of negotiations with the Minister of Health, the fault will lie at his door for refusing to negotiate in the first instance.—Yours sincerely, WILLIAM T. MILTON. 29 Westmount Road, Eltham, S.E. 9.
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