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From 1924 to 1949 the "Voice of the AMA" was Dr. Morris Fishbein, who edited the all-powerful Journal of the Association. Last year the membership finally gagged him for sounding off too loudly and too carelessly, but the spirit of Fishbein lived...
More than 10,000 U.S. doctors-left their practices in the hands of partners or friends last week and went to San Francisco. There the American Medical Association was holding its 99th annual convention. Notable absentee: Dr. Morris Fishbein, who was eased out of his job as the A.M.A.'s spokesman last December. As one veteran remarked of this Fishbein-less gathering: "It's running smoothly, effectively and efficiently-but good heavens, it's dull...
Turnabout. Doctors in general agreed with this indictment, but individually did little at first to prosecute their case. This they left to the American Medical Association. Once (during World War I), the A.M.A. had favored compulsory, health insurance. But during Dr. Morris Fishbein's long (1924-49) and bellicose editorship of the A.M.A.'s Journal, the tune changed. Though Republican Ray Lyman Wilbur was an M.D. and a past president of the A.M.A., his committee's 1932 report was denounced by Fishbein as "socialism and communism." Under Fishbein's leadership, the A.M.A. at first also opposed...
...last year, doctors decided that the U.S. public was not judging the A.M.A. on the merits o.f its case, but was taking sides for or against Fishbein. So the A.M.A dumped Dr. Fishbein (TIME, June 20) and hired a firm of San Francisco pressagents, Clem Whitaker and his wife Leone Baxter, to run its "National Education Campaign" against the Truman-Ewing program. Doctors have found it an expensive war: Whitaker & Baxter (for a fee of $100,000 a year) are spending $2,000,000 a year to counter the effects of Ewing's tax-supported propaganda. This year...
Before this tough language was deleted, Northwestern's Dean Simeon E. Leland charged that the medical profession is governed by "Petrillo and Fishbein economics." "Medicine," said he, "is the only profession where the element of competition comes only at the beginning ... If we had more, we would have better doctors. There would be more opportunity for medical research and competition would weed out the weaker ones as it does in other professions...