Word: gastroenterologist
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Some traditionalists are distressed by all the talk of abandoning professional courtesy. After Wolfson and Bass denounced the no-fee practice as a relic in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, it received a spate of critical letters. Gastroenterologist William Haubrich of La Jolla, Calif., protested that proffering a bill to a fellow doctor smacks of commercialism and erodes the strong feelings of fraternalism in the medical community. Oklahoma City Internist Ernest Warner Jr. added: "One of the greatest honors one can receive is to be asked by a fellow physician to care...
...vice president; from there she headed for New York City for a gathering of the American College of Cardiology. At 6 p.m. Saturday, she was welcomed home by her three teen-age daughters?just in time to bustle off to a party with her husband Julius, a gastroenterologist...
...A.M.A. amendments committee sought to shelve last week's resolution against the color bar, but the organization's 242 delegates passed the resolution almost unanimously. At the same time, the association installed a California gastroenterologist, Dwight Locke Wilbur, as president and elected a Manhattan insurance-company physician, Gerald Dale Dorman, to succeed Dr. Wilbur in 1969. Both men are unusually liberal, in medical terms; their selection holds promise of even broader reform of the once-mossbacked A.M.A...
...acclamation, the delegates chose Dr. Dwight Locke Wilbur, 63, a San Francisco gastroenterologist, as the organization's president-elect to take office next June. He is one of two doctor sons of the late Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, longtime president of Stanford University, Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior, and A.M.A. president in 1923-24. Wilbur will be the first president in the A.M.A.'s 120-year history whose father also served in the office...
Ironically, the man whom Wilbur will replace next year, and who was installed as the A.M.A.'s president last week, is one of the association's most conservative members. Dr. Milford O. Rouse, 64, a Dallas gastroenterologist, is personal physician to Oilman H. L. Hunt, a former director of Hunt's far-right Life Line Foundation, and a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, an ultra-conservative political-action group. Unremittingly hostile to Government involvement in health care, Dr. Rouse still refuses to treat patients who insist on being billed through a Medicare agency...