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...bill is only a peacetime measure, and does not touch the vastly greater problem of medical mobilization for a possible World War III. On that problem, the delegates were confronted with a grim report by a special committee headed by A.M.A.'s president, Dr. Edward L. Bortz of Philadelphia...
Philadelphia's Dr. Edward L. Bortz, president-elect of the A.M.A., had a prescription ready for the whole nation: take it easy, get enough sleep and recreation, develop a sense of humor. That way, he thought, the insatiable spirit can be kept from tearing the fragile flesh to pieces. Chicago Heart Specialist Louis N. Katz, who thinks even card games are too strenuous, went further: "Never try competition-not even with your own golf...
...close battle, Pete Ill-man was downed by John Bird of Yale in the 155 pound class, and Ted Schoenberg was nosed out for a decision by Norman Bond of Penn. who had defeated him earlier in the season. Another close bout was fought between Duncan Longcope and Bortz, a stellar Penn. State wrestler...
...weight reducing compound in any form should be used unless the patient is under strict observation by a thoroughly qualified physician." So declared Dr. Edward L. Bortz of Philadelphia to the American College of Physicians, meeting in Chicago last week. To such talk, patent medicine manufacturers and many a layman reply: "Humph, doctors trying to make more business for themselves...
...Bortz was talking specifically about the latest weight reducing drug, Dinitrophenol, which burns up fat by speeding the body's metabolic processes. In so doing it may also produce nausea, itching, rash. Taken in overlarge doses, it brings violent illness and death. A full study of the drug has not been completed, but it has been established that some people are especially sensitive to it. Last week Dr. Bortz advised doctors to test their patients for two weeks with extremely light doses...