A hundred years ago | Doctors and journalism

The London correspondent of “The Manchester Guardian” writes: I do not think there has been much notice in what the scientific papers call “the lay press” of the interesting compromise which the British Medical Association Council has arrived at on the delicate question of what they call “indirect methods of advertising.” In the recent discussion of the B.M.A. the authorities did not go so far as to prohibit doctors from writing in the lay press, but there was a strong deprecation of “undesirable journalistic methods.” It was suggested that doctors who write for the papers should make it a condition with the editors that there should be no laudatory comment of their achievements or headlines relating to their professional status, and photographs were gravely disapproved of.

Published - April 07, 2025 03:39 am IST