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Last week the case of the strange salt suddenly became more serious. A doctor in Ann Arbor, Mich, reported to Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, that a patient was critically ill, apparently from lithium chloride. Two days later three doctors from Cleveland's Crile Clinic sent in another report: two patients (one 70, the other 60) had died and five others were ill, apparently from the salt. Dr. Fishbein asked newspapers and radio stations to issue warnings. Planning to reclassify lithium chloride as a drug instead of as a special dietary food...
Such talk apparently made sense to many of the A.M.A.'s rank & file. While last week's meeting was in session, 136 leading U.S. doctors, all opponents of socialized medicine, sent a petition to A.M.A. Spokesman Dr. Morris Fishbein, criticizing the association's "indefinite and ... inadequate program." Under the combined assault, the A.M.A. brass gave way. This week they announced a twelve-point plan. Main points: 1) creation of a federal Department of Health, headed by a doctor who will be a Cabinet member, 2) increased medical research through a national science foundation, 3) more voluntary health...
These and other case histories of the victims of mental quacks are described by Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, in the current issue of the Woman's Home Companion. Says Dr. Fishbein: "Our mental hospitals, penal institutions and, yes, our graveyards contain many occupants who would not be there if we only required sensible standards for psychological practitioners...
There are, says Fishbein, about 3,500 scientifically trained practicing psychologists and psychiatrists. But there are at least 25,000 others-"many of them charlatans"-who advertise that they can cure every psychic ill that man is heir to. The public now pays $375 million a year to these psychological quacks...
...Fishbein's prescription: have standards set up and practitioners certified by the American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association, National Vocational Guidance Association. There would be no trouble, he thinks, persuading all 48 states* to back up such standards...