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Awarded. To Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association's Journal and Hygeia, onetime medical editor of TIME : the insignia of Com-mander of the Crown of Italy, for his services to Italian medicine and physicians; in Chicago...
...country, but it was discontinued at his death in 1913. At Temple University, Philadelphia, Dr. Victor Robinson teaches medical history, publishes Medical Life, the only English language monthly devoted exclusively to the subject. Dr. Irving Samuel Cutter teaches the history of medicine at Northwestern University, Dr. Morris Fishbein at the University of Chicago, Dr. G. Canby Robinson at Cornell Medical College, New York City; Dr. Edward Clark Streeter gives extramural instruction at Harvard. There are a half-dozen histories of medicine by U. S. authors and perhaps a dozen other men who give instruction to groups in various schools...
...Medicine Today. Dr. Edward Starr Judd of Rochester, Minn., outgoing president of the A. M. A., and Dr. Edward Henry Gary of Dallas, Tex., incoming president, left a survey of "present-day trends of private practice in the U. S." to Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the A. M. A.'s scientific Journal and popular Hygeia. Of 160,000 physicians in the U. S., Dr. Fishbein observed, 40,000 list themselves as specialists in the American Medical Directory. Among medical students the situation is now reversed. Three out of four medical school graduates go into one of the specialties...
...public Editor Fishbein submitted: "Good medical care differs greatly from the best medical care. In view of the advances of modern medical science, it is questionable whether or not the best medical care can ever be furnished to all the people at a price they can afford to pay. It would seem rather that we must work toward the period when all of mankind in this country will receive the best medical care that they can be furnished for what they can afford...
Health insurance seems to promise adequate medical attention for everybody and adequate livelihood for the physician. Exclaimed Dr. Fishbein, spurting to the end of his long discourse: "People know that death is inevitable. In teaching preventive medicine, we have emphasized that sickness may be prevented. Today we know that some sickness for every family is just as inevitable as death, and unless obstetrics continue to be inevitable there will be no population for the future. Let us, therefore, teach the worker that 2,000,000 people are sick every day in 120,000,000 population, and that this number...