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...York State contains 700 known typhoid carriers. Few of them have "submitted to the operation for the removal of gall bladder, usually an effective procedure for ridding the system of typhoid germs. Hoping to persuade more to undergo cholecystectomy. Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., State Health Commissioner, last week announced that 91 New York typhoid carriers have had their gall bladders out during the past 15 years, and hence may live as they please, without official surveillance...
...York, he considered the control of venereal disease his State's biggest public health problem. To lead the attack on something which Society rates below the polite conversation line but which causes a larger economic loss to the country than any other disease, he took Dr. Thomas Parran Jr. from the U. S. Public Health Service, where he had long been Assistant Surgeon General in charge of venereal disease control. As New York State's Commissioner of Health (salary $12,000), Dr. Parran began to spend $15,000 to $20,000 a year for prophylactic stations, clinics, moving...
...Parran's was to be the fifth of a series of 19 lectures on medical economics which the Rockefeller-sponsored National Advisory Council on Radio in Education is broadcasting over CBS under the general title of "Doctors, Dollars and Disease." The American Medical Association disapproves that series because, if the socialization of medicine which the lecturers advocate ever becomes a reality in the U. S., doctors may some day find themselves the hirelings of Government...
...night last week the CBS audience that habitually listens to "Doctors, Dollars and Disease," tuned in to hear Dr. Parran on "Public Health Needs." Instead they got 15 minutes of orchestra music. Next day a few of them learned why. Dr. Parran had prepared a talk on syphilis. Infantile paralysis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and cancer are diseases which broadcasters frequently discuss over the radio but Columbia Broadcasting drew the line at Dr. Parran's subject. Nonetheless, he appeared at CBS's Manhattan studio to tell the nation about syphilis. Would he alter his prepared text to conform with what...
...Flexner put Dr. Park's statement aside as merely representing an opinion. Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., State commissioner of health, sensing a controversy, protected himself thus: "In the absence of any better known method of combating infantile paralysis, the New York State Department of Health will continue to recommend the use of human serum unless its usefulness should be completely disproved...