Juvenile Delinquency
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Abstract
SIR,-In your restrained and helpful leader (Feb. 2, p. 167) you speak of the Socialist Medical Association being "content with nothing that stops short of the socialization of medicine." May I enter a plea once more for the use of the word "nationalization " rather than "socialization " when we use the term in the sense of "any form of service which leads directly or indirectly to the profession as a whole becoming full-time salaried servants of the State." As I pointed out in my Cardiff address (Journal, March 17, 1945, p. 357), to " socialize " medicine may mean only to make medicine more accessible to the public-an achievement which the public ardently desires and which we all, surely, approve. To "nationalize " medicine can only have the meaning given above. The ambiguity is fostered by the Socialists-I must not say deliberately-and the public is greatly deceived in consequence.-I am, etc.,