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...Congressional committee gnawing over the U.S. shortage of doctors called as witnesses both Dr. Morris Fishbein, American Medical Association bigwig, and mountain-moving Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, who in the name of wartime efficiency is providing his tens of thousands of employes with medical attention at a fixed fee of 50? a week. The two did not clash directly but when Fishbein said priorities made the building of new hospitals impossible, Kaiser snorted: "We are doing it." Said Dr. Fishbein blandly: "You are a very strong man, Mr. Kaiser." Before the hearing was over the strong-minded duo had given...
...medical profession ... [is] closer to scraping the bottom of the bucket . . . than any other occupation, trade or profession." So warned Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...original Government suit was also filed against Drs. Morris Fishbein, editor of the A.M.A. Journal, Manager Olin West, a number of other executives. After deliberating twelve hours, the jury acquitted the doctors, but convicted the A.M.A. and its Washington branch. At week's end, sentence had not yet been imposed on the organizations; they face a maximum fine of $5,000 each. Editor Fishbein and Manager West, who plan to carry the case to a court of appeals, made no comment on the verdict, said merely that the A.M.A. "will continue to do its utmost for ... public health...
Last week a country doctor in Missouri wired the A. M. A. that one of his patients had died after receiving a dose of sulfathiazole. A. M. A.'s Editor Morris Fishbein suspected that something was wrong with the drug. He promptly got in touch with the U. S. Food and Drug Administration, found that they had heard of the poisonous drug from the Massachusetts Health Department only four days before, already had sent hundreds of inspectors out to gather up the contaminated tablets...
...Fishbein telegraphed doctors all over the U. S. to warn them. Immediately he received seven wires in reply, telling of suspicious cases in which the drug had been used. Besides the Missouri patient, one baby had died. Several other pneumonia patients who were given the tablets had died, but the doctors were not positive that the drug had killed them. At week's end A. M. A. had not yet estimated the exact number of casualties, had begun to suspect a second lot of tablets, MP118...