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From Chicago the American Medical Association's Dr. Morris Fishbein added: "A nation which fought successfully against totalitarianism now proposes to enslave its medical profession . . . thus convert its physicians into clock-watching civil servants." If the bill passes, Dr. Fishbein prophesied direly: "The medical profession in Great Britain will lose the respect the rest of the world has always had for it, for it would be sure to result in deterioration of England's medical practice...
Elected December 2 to replace Morris Fishbein, he came out five days later in PM, the New York daily, not only in favor of socialized medicine, but also for universal medical care through government agencies...
...looks. Chicago found over 47% of its birds infected; Buffalo found its pigeons "a nuisance." Result: Chicago may kill its pigeons soon; Buffalo will begin at once to trap its birds, eat them or let the A.S.P.C.A. get rid of them. But an advisory committee headed by Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, has pooh-poohed the pigeon menace: "There is not sufficient. . . evidence . . . to warrant an indiscriminate elimination. . . . There is good evidence that only a small percentage of [human] infection is definitely related to ... birds...
...believe the medical profession will take as too infallible the denial that A.M.A. claims the Office of the Surgeon General made regarding the mustering-out of Army doctors. Dr. Fishbein [editor of the Journal] is too anxious to deny any statement concerning the medical profession ... if any publication other than the A.M.A. Journal made...
...poor poems for every good or fair one she put in. Such doctors as Edward Jenner (vaccination pioneer) and Havelock Ellis made the grade, but a list of all the doctor-poets the anthologist uncovered shows that such poetasters as William Harvey. Hippocrates, Sir William Osier, Rabelais and Morris Fishbein failed to satisfy Mrs. McDonough's critical taste. Nonetheless, a lot of doggerel got in. One of the most amusing contemporary specimens is John Fallon's Inscription for an Old Well...