Resident doctors on the'staff of Shreveport Charity Hospital are advising New Orleans medical school graduates not to accept interneships there, The Item learned today.
The Shreveport resident doctors charge that "politics" is disrupting the hospital's training program.
They have written personal letters to their friends ilk the graduating classes of the Tulane and
Louisiana State University medical schools here.
'They have also written graduating students in five other medical schools which customarily send internes to Shreveport Charity.
So far, internes contacted here have not taken any definite action. The dean of one of the medical schools here ha sadvised his graduates to accept their interneships at Shreveport.
The "politics" charge centered
around Dr. C. S. Sentell, Gov. Kennon's brother-in-law, who is superintendent of the hospital.
Tr. Sentell, a general practitioner from Minden, was made superintendent of the hospital soon after Gov. Kennon took office. He was appointed by the hospital board just after the new board members had been named by Kennon.
