Word: galdston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pains to give newspapers accurate medical intelligence and then to have papers garble & scarehead an announcement was the heart sickening experience of New York doctors last week. Their New York Academy of Medicine and New York County Medical Society last year set up a medical information bureau with lago Galdston as executive secretary. Last week the bureau, on the basis of reports made by 90 leading practitioners, issued to the papers a summary of 1928's medical progress. In the summary there was carefully written: "A third discovery (in cancer) is the demonstration that the combination of ultraviolet radiation...
...York Medical Society on active publicity against quacks expresses merely a local feeling, it typifles, nevertheless, the over-scrupulous ethics of physicians all over the country. Doctors everywhere are content to leave it to other people to expose takes and attack charlatans, because, in the words of Dr. Galdston of the New York Society, "We doctors can advance our scientific knowledge but we have no time to defend science itself. . . . Ours is the aggression against disease, but the citizen's duty is the defense of our purpose...
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