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Most outstanding among the handful of U. S. doctors who show some compassion for the English language is Editor Morris Fishbein of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Editor Fishbein has a wit which he likes to sharpen at the expense of quacks and of others who displease him. Only attempt at humor in the whole spate of U. S. medical journals is the collection of stale, smutty jokes which have trailed with dismal repetition through the Journal's "Tonics and Sedatives" column for the past 20 years...
Harvard's choleric surgeon, Hugh Cabot (the Boston tribe which according to legend "speaks only to God"), is vice chair man of the Committee of Physicians, a group of 1,000 critical American Medical Association members. For three years Dr. Cabot has stamped and stormed for group medical service. Last year a group of prominent Boston laymen, headed by Law yer Francis Henry Russell, dumped a plan for cheap, wholesale medical care on Dr. Cabot's doorstep. Dr. Cabot read and ap proved the plan, discussed it with four sympathetic colleagues-among them Dr. Channing Frothingham, former president...
Last fortnight Scotland's famed physiologist, 68-year-old Sir Robert Hutchison, made some remarks on the style of British and American medical literature. Occasion: A David Lloyd Roberts (famed obstetrician who died in 1920) memorial lecture before the London Medical Society. The average time before papers get into print in scientific journals is around 12 months, but last week's issue of the British Lancet gave Sir Robert's speech front-page billing. Excerpts...
...literary quality of medical writing, Sir Robert continued, "Many papers on medical psychology, biochemistry or iatromathematical [medico-mathematical] subjects might . . . just as well be written in Chinese. . . . American medical literature . . . exhibits only too often an absence of any sense of style or even of grammar. . . . We are not yet so bad as that here...
...National Association of Manufacturers. Last week the heavy cream of tycoonery floating on a Grade A selection of 2,500 substantial U. S. businessmen poured through the lobbies of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria between sessions of N. A. M.'s 44th three-day Congress of American Industry...