Word: otolaryngologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief medical spokesmen against the New Deal's bill to finance State plans for medical care are Drs. Samuel Joseph Kopetzky and Haven Emerson. Dr. Kopetzky, a youthful-looking, rosy-cheeked-otolaryngologist and veteran of the Spanish-American War, is editor of the official New York Medical Week. He is also an accomplished speechmaker. For months he has been denouncing the National Health Program as "a foreign importation." If doctors were salaried, he argued, they would not render good medical care, for the desire for money is the greatest incentive in medical practice. From the oath of Hippocrates...
Several years ago Adolf Hitler asked the world's greatest otolaryngologist, Professor Heinrich von Neumann of Vienna, to examine his larynx. Dr. von Neumann had as patients and friends England's George VI and Duke of Windsor, Spain's Alfonso, Rumania's Carol, Greece's George, Austria's late Emperor Charles. But he is an orthodox Jew and he turned Hitler down. Last spring, when Hitler entered Austria, Dr. von Neumann was imprisoned and released upon the plea of the Duke of Windsor...
...Harold M. Hays, Episcopalian brother of the Jewish civil libertarian, Arthur Garfield Hays, operates two private hospitals in Manhattan. He also is an otolaryngologist of note and gets many cases referred to him from other physicians. "It is possible that as many as 60% to 70% of the 14,000 doctors in the metropolitan area are engaged in this pernicious practice of splitting fees. Best evidence we have of this is the vote taken last month by the Kings County Medical Society, when 579 out of 770 doctors voted against establishing a law to stop the practice...
...York, in 1898. In 1921, he was graduated from Fordham Medical College, became an interne at Englewood, N. J. After a year of work for U. S. Public Health Service, Dr. Alton A. Smahl set up an office of his own in Manhattan, began practice as an otolaryngologist. He inserted the initial A. to make his name sound better. He married, became the father of a daughter, spent a year in Vienna doing post-graduate work...