Word: said
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Whitaker & Baxter: "The first skirmishes were ended and won. Unfortunately, the war was not." These first skirmishes had been paid for out of $2,250,000 raised from voluntary $25 assessments, which 75% of the A.M.A.'s active, assessable members had paid. The money was running out fast. To pay for the decisive engagement which the A.M.A.'s top brass expects in 1950, conscript dollars were needed. The house of delegates ruled that any doctor who falls 13 months behind in dues would forfeit membership...
...asked whether a doctor who defaulted on A.M.A. dues would have to be dropped from his county or state medical society. If he were, he could not get staff appointments at most hospitals nor get his patients into their beds. Dr. Louis Bauer, chairman of the board of trustees, said that this need not happen...
...rebels in the A.M.A.'s own ranks were not reassured. New York Clinician Ernst P. Boas loosed a blast for the Physicians' Forum, which favors the Fair Deal's national health plan. The dues levy, said he, "is against the interests of a majority of Americans, who need a national prepayment system of medical care ... It will convert the professional organization of America's physicians into a political lobby...
...heavy casualties, said Dr. Moyer, need not be. In the first place, four-fifths of the nation's gastric cancer victims are suitable cases, for surgery. If operated on in time, there would be high hope for the majority of them. But the surgery available in most parts of the country is not good enough: although half the patients now die, there are "islands" in this sea of mortality where only one patient out of 20 dies. Among such islands: the Mayo Clinic, University of Minnesota Hospital and Manhattan's Memorial Hospital...
...reason for the wide difference between the nation's best and the nation's average, said Dr. Moyer, lies in the difficulty of the operation. It takes a highly skilled surgical team to perform this difficult task, and there are few such teams available. To train 100 specialized teams, Dr. Moyer conceded, would be an immense job. But it might save 30,000 to 38,000 stomach cancer victims each year...