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Through the years some doctors grew envious of the publicity and money, that Dr. Fishbein got as traveler, radio speaker, newspaper columnist and author of 21 popular medical books that have sold 3,000,000 copies. Others resented the efficient battles he fought against anything that smacked of socialized medicine...
Last week at the annual meeting in Atlantic City, the A.M.A. hierarchy dumped Dr. Fishbein. It was done so brutally that even his enemies felt a little sorry...
...years, no meeting of the American Medical Association has been complete without a rumor that contentious, energetic Dr. Morris Fishbein would be ousted as editor of A.M.A.'s Journal, which is the only official position he has ever held in U.S. medicine's topmost organization. But through most of his 37 years with A.M.A. (he will be 60 in July), Dr. Fishbein went serenely on as official spokesman for U.S. doctors. He was "Dr. A.M.A." and the man to quote on anything medical. He was quoted so often that few of his bosses ever got much attention...
...House of Delegates in the Hotel Traymore's white and gold American room. Dr. Henderson, later named president-elect in a cut & dried election, began his report on "the activities of the editor" with an admission that "the board ... is aware of the criticism of the editor." Fishbein's name was not mentioned until the next-to-last paragraph. Then there was a suave tribute to his "genius and devotion." In the paragraphs between, Dr. Fishbein got his walking papers...
...soon as someone could be trained to take over the job, Morris Fishbein would be retired as editor of the Journal he had built into the largest medical periodical in the world. He was brusquely ordered to stop forthwith all speeches on controversial topics, to give no interviews except on scientific subjects, to submit editorials on controversial subjects for approval. Most delegates understood that Dr. Fishbein was being used as a lightning rod to divert criticism from A.M.A. while his bosses continued to fight socialized medicine tooth & nail...