Women's Doctor

Headed by a Mrs. Louisa Pottesman, 30 fervent women have been buzzing about London for months, collecting other women's signatures. Collectors and signers had one thing in common--all had been patients of a young gynecologist named Harold Burt-White. The collectors hunted everywhere, some even loitering outside hospitals watching for faces they had seen in Dr. Burt-White's waiting room.

Last week, when 318 signatures had been obtained, the women presented to Britain's General Medical Council a petition for the professional reinstatement of Dr. Burt-White. Cried Mrs. Pottesman, whom he had cured of a rare disease: "All those who have signed have been brought through dangerous illnesses by Dr. Burt-White. There are hundreds of women whom he alone could cure. It is our business to see that his services to womankind are not lost."

U. S. practitioners with attractive lady patients pricked up their ears. Last year young Dr. Burt-White, then head house surgeon of great St. Bartholomew's Hospital, winner of two scientific prizes for his work on puerperal sepsis, was dropped from the medical register for "secret and improper association with a married woman patient." Unlike the disgraced British doctors of Somerset Maugham and other tropical romancers, he did not fly to a torrid oblivion of drink, cynicism and "mammy-palaver." Since his expulsion Dr. Burt-White has been studying law.

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