Medical Research and the Practitioner

Abstract

IN the interim report¹ issued recently by the Consultative Council on Medical and Allied Services, under the chairmanship of Lord Dawson of Penn, the proportion, given to research is disappointingly small. Perhaps this was inevitable. The medical organisation suggested includes effective laboratory equipment at every stage from the domiciliary work of the practitioner to the conducting of prolonged researches by the Medical Research Council; but the portions dealing with research proper are very generalised. A document like this should be a new charter for medicine, and the scientific mind naturally expects to see the scientific groundwork fully developed. For increased and accelerated research is essential to the continued expansion of scientific medicine. In the report it is hoped