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...most parts of the U.S., doctors can do nothing about the haphazard use of X-ray fitting machines in shoe stores (TIME, Sept. 19) except denounce it as dangerous. But in Washington last week the District of Columbia's Commission on Medical Licensure tried a neat trick: it banned use of the machines except by licensed operators-and no shoe-store clerk could qualify for a medical operator's license...
Face-lifters are not the only targets of Los Angeles' litigious patients. Radiologists (because of the danger of X-ray burns) and general surgeons (tackling serious and often risky operations) are under steady legal fire. So are obstetricians and neuro-psychiatrists...
...Commission will try to sign up upperclassmen, graduate students, and the administration. Freshmen will not be expected to show up for the examination because X-rays taken before they entered college are good for a year...
...reported at a meeting of the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association that on 1,200 serum samples from 950 patients the test was 92.3% accurate. "This test," said he, "gives the doctors a new tool. It should not be thought of as a test to displace the X ray or any other standard method...
...advantages of the new and sharper tool were obvious. Unlike routine chest X rays, the serum test will disclose tuberculosis in other parts of the body besides the lungs. An X ray shows lung spots, but the serum test helps to determine whether the spots are healed tuberculosis scars or other lung diseases such as cancer, abscess, pneumonia or silicosis...