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...nationwide movement called Socialized Medicine to give all U. S. citizens free medical service at government expense infuriates the dentists even more than it does the doctors. The American Medical Association, sure of its strength in legislative lobbies, has compromised somewhat with Socialized Medicine. The American Dental Association, aware that its lobbyists are unskilled, its numbers relatively small* and its antecedents plain, fights Socialized Medicine tooth & nail. Cried A. D. A. President Winter in his farewell address last week: "While history is in the making it is not for the American Dental Association to sit on the side lines after...
...Miner: "The American Dental Association is firmly opposed to socialization in any compulsory form...
President Winter also took a valedictory whack at Dentist Leroy L. Hartman of Columbia University, whose dental pain-killer created great hopes among patients, great consternation among dentists, who found that it did not always work (TIME, Feb. 3). Dr. Hartman last week told the A. D. A. all about Hartman's Solution, his method of applications, and the types of cavities it is suited for. Dr. Paul Wells of Chicago reported that of 23,000 patients treated, 30% felt no pain whatsoever after application of Hartman's Solution, 30% felt some pain, 40% gained no anesthesia whatsoever...
Last week busy Dr. Miner declared he would work his new American Dental Association duties into his already full life somehow. A. D. A. presidents are expected to do a lot of traveling to keep in touch with the 48 state dental societies and to keep the member's noses glued to dental ideals. Said Dr. Miner: "I hope to break Percy Howe's record when he was president,* of having traveled less than any other A. D. A. president...
...Proud are dentists that the A. D. A. includes 70% of the 58,004 U. S. dentists, whereas the A. M. A. includes only some 50% of the 170,000 U. S. doctors. * Director Percy Rogers Howe of Boston's Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children, A. D. A. President...