Word: gastroenterologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...A.M.A. amendments committee sought to shelve last week's resolution against the color bar, but the organization's 242 delegates passed the resolution almost unanimously. At the same time, the association installed a California gastroenterologist, Dwight Locke Wilbur, as president and elected a Manhattan insurance-company physician, Gerald Dale Dorman, to succeed Dr. Wilbur in 1969. Both men are unusually liberal, in medical terms; their selection holds promise of even broader reform of the once-mossbacked A.M.A...
...acclamation, the delegates chose Dr. Dwight Locke Wilbur, 63, a San Francisco gastroenterologist, as the organization's president-elect to take office next June. He is one of two doctor sons of the late Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, longtime president of Stanford University, Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior, and A.M.A. president in 1923-24. Wilbur will be the first president in the A.M.A.'s 120-year history whose father also served in the office...
Ironically, the man whom Wilbur will replace next year, and who was installed as the A.M.A.'s president last week, is one of the association's most conservative members. Dr. Milford O. Rouse, 64, a Dallas gastroenterologist, is personal physician to Oilman H. L. Hunt, a former director of Hunt's far-right Life Line Foundation, and a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, an ultra-conservative political-action group. Unremittingly hostile to Government involvement in health care, Dr. Rouse still refuses to treat patients who insist on being billed through a Medicare agency...
...ready to adjust to the new program. The delegates obviously thought that the fight should and will go on. and to prepare for the future they elected Dr. Milford Rouse by acclamation as the next A.M.A. president. Rouse, who will take office in June 1967, is a Dallas gastroenterologist and a former director of H. L. Hunt's ultra-right Life Line Foundation. As speaker of the house of delegates, he has already made it clear that he will take a far harder line on Medicare than moderate Dr. Hudson...
Died. Dr. Antonio Gasbarrini, 81, papal doctor since 1954, a gastroenterologist who attended the final illnesses of Pius XII in 1958 and his good friend John XXIII last spring; following a prostate operation; in Bologna...