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Diagnosis and Treatment
A REVIEW of the history of medical
practice would probably reveal the
fact that at one stage of the development
physicians resorted to indiscriminate
"bleeding" of patients, regardless of the
ailment. Later on, calomel and quinine
were administered as a sort of cure-all,
whether or not such medication was indicated.
Revised from time to time, the
practice of medicine now pretty generally
calls for examination of each case and a
diagnosis before treatment or medicine is
prescribed.
Accountancy may well take a lesson
from an older profession and give some
thought to the matter of technical procedure.
Constant consideration and revision
from time to time is essential to
progress in any profession. As medical
practice has more or less responsibility
for human life, so accountancy practice is
vitally concerned with economic or business
life.
The discouraging part about accountancy
practice is that its practitioners are
too prone, using a figure of speech, to con-
