Wolf Gabrielle
J Law Med. 2015 Mar;22(3):568-87.
The Medical Board of Victoria (Board) was created in 1844 to register "legally qualified medical practitioners". It was not until 1933, however, that the Board attained the power to remove from its register a doctor who had engaged in "infamous conduct in a professional respect" (the power), even though the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom on which the Board was modelled had been granted the power 75 years earlier. This article argues that the delay in the Board's inheritance was attributable to successive Victorian Parliaments' distrust of the Board and that this attitude was unwarranted, at least from early in the 20th century. The article maintains that the granting of the power to the Board was a crucial event in the history of the regulation of the Victorian medical profession. This is illustrated both by the difficulty encountered by the medical profession in dealing with doctors' unethical conduct before 1933, and the Board's concern to use its new authority responsibly and appropriately to protect the public and the profession in the three years after it attained the power.
维多利亚医学委员会（委员会）成立于1844年，旨在登记“具有合法资质的执业医生”。然而，直到1933年，委员会才获得权力，将从事“专业方面的可耻行为”的医生从其注册名单中除名（这项权力），尽管作为委员会效仿对象的英国医学教育与注册总会早在75年前就已被授予此项权力。本文认为，委员会继承这项权力的延迟归因于维多利亚州历届议会对该委员会的不信任，而且至少从20世纪初起，这种态度就是毫无根据的。本文认为，授予委员会这项权力是维多利亚州医学行业监管历史上的一个关键事件。1933年之前医学行业在处理医生不道德行为时遇到的困难，以及委员会在获得该权力后的三年里谨慎且恰当地运用其新权力以保护公众和行业的关切，都说明了这一点。
