CORRESPONDENCE MICA 1171 long enough to pay for his widow's pension, or die soon enough to save retirement annuity, or be healthy enough to need no sick pay ? The worst sinners are the Ministries, because their mistakes are magnified a thousandfold. All hospital employees under the N.H.S. must go through the initiation ceremony of a medical examination. At first each had to be certified as being " free from any physical defect or disease which now impairs his capacity satisfactorily to undertake the duties of the post for which he is a candidate, or appears likely to prevent continuous effective service in the future." The last clause was soon deleted, possibly because examinations revealed that some would fall sick and all would die. It is difficult to see any point in the certificate as it now remains, or what a medical examination has to do with it. Our masters are now concerned with the cost of it all, and we may be permitted to concern ourselves too. Clearly no medical examination should be called for unless the originator can answer two questions: (1) What are you looking for ? (2) What difference will it make anyway ?-I am, etc., London, W.I.
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