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...student loan portion of the bill faces strong opposition from the AMA, and I wanted to let Rep. Harris know that medical schools do not share the views of the AMA," he said...
Salk, Sabin, and other authorities and organizations had disagreed on the relative merits of the vaccines, but the dispute remained subdued until the AMA House of Delegates state, in March, 1961, that "the persistence of immunity induced by the oral [Sabin] vaccine may be of much longer duration than is the case with Salk vaccine and, in fact, the persistence of immunity may conceivably approach that induced by natural infection in type, degree, and duration." And while the AMA urged wider use of Salk injections until Sabin was licensed, it noted that the Sabin protects against both paralytic...
Salk protested the AMA statement, accusing it of "misinformation and misleading references," and when he asked why he was not consulted in the matter, the AMA replied that it "wanted experts who were not protagonists." Salk expressed the fear that Sabin protection would simply reintroduce the live virus into the human environment, but Dr. Spring, secretary of the House of Delegates, rejoined that "everyone should get them as extra protection... In our opinion, the more vaccination the safer you are. This does not imply that the Salk vaccine is useless, but it is not perfect and at present a booster...
...Monday's editorial, "Live Modern," your excellent comments on smoking and lung cancer were marred by an ill-considered and overly-broad indictment of the AMA. You said that it seemed unlikely that the AMA would "take time off from its arduous lobbying duties to support a cause which, after all, will only save lives." Even though I am one of the most outspoken critics in my class at the medical school of the AMA's persistent and extreme economic short-sightedness, I can not let such a sweeping statement pass unchallenged. The most ardent liberal in the medical profession...
...business" of newspapering. The trouble is that in this country business is too clean a word: nowhere else would an organization of doctors lobby as shamelessly and as effectively as any industry in behalf of the economic interests of medicine as a business. Journalism, along with the AMA, has forgotten the social responsibilities of being a profession...