Word: long
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morris Fishbein, long the big mouthpiece of the American Medical Association and self-appointed spokesman of organized U.S. medicine, finally found his forum cut from under him. Since his A.M.A. bosses clamped a tight muzzle on him last summer (TIME, June 20), it had not been much of a forum. This week, well aware that he was no longer welcome in it, Morris Fishbein resigned the editorship of the Journal and half a dozen other A.M.A. publications...
Some of the patients on whom Dr. Bargen tried methylcellulose had taken, as they said, "barrels of laxatives," and were still constipated. One 6g-year-old woman had been taking daily doses as long as she could remember. A girl of 19, her mother testified, had taken a laxative nearly every day since early childhood. Methylcellulose straightened them...
...keep his editorial hand in, Dr. Fishbein was taking on more duties as consulting editor of Doubleday & Co. and its medical subsidiary, the Blakiston Co., for which he had long worked in his spare time. He will continue as medical editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Hearst's American Weekly, in his spare time will write a syndicated daily column and two monthly columns, and hold down teaching posts at the University of Chicago and University of Illinois medical schools. Somehow, Dr. Fishbein also expects to have time for a lecture tour and for work on a layman...
Many medical men, including a few of Dr. Fishbein's sometime detractors, feel that he has been shabbily treated by the A.M.A. after 37 years of faithful, loud-voiced service. But Fishbein, showing no malice, says: "I never get mad at anybody. I stopped having feelings long ago." But those who have dared Dr. Fishbein's displeasure may eventually get their comeuppance: he is already at work on his memoirs...
Besides, said the council, many of those who take these drugs "become drowsy or even fall asleep while at work or ... driving cars or operating machinery. Experience with these drugs is not yet long enough to know whether or not they are harmless when used over long periods of time. Furthermore, the amounts taken in persistent colds may be definitely beyond what has been established as safe." As a guardian of the public's welfare, the council promised to look further into the controversial matter...