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...James Jerger and his wife Susan, who is also his research assistant at the Houston Speech and Hearing Center, got similar results after testing the members of a five-man combo. One player had a 50-db temporary loss, and three had already suffered a slight but permanent loss, although none was older than...
...Doctor, Here's Your Hat, Dr. Jerger also tells that he was called out to a farmer's house one day on a confinement case, got into the wrong bedroom while the farmer was stabling his horse, palpated the abdomen of a sleeping schoolteacher by mistake...
...born in England 59 years ago, ran off to the Boer War in 1899, almost died of enteric fever, met Mark Twain on a boat going to England. Mark Twain medicated the convalescent with Tom & Jerries (rum, hot water, cinnamon, eggs), persuaded him to go to the U. S. Jerger did so, got through his medical schooling and internship in Chicago, settled in Waterloo, Ia. Eventually he returned to Chicago and built up a fine surgical practice; but he never forgot that he was a family doctor...
Some weeks ago Dr. Jerger was haled before a Chicago Medical Society committee on charges that his book and magazine writings violated A. M. A. rules against "self-aggrandizement and solicitation of patients." Later, he claims that he and his patients were barred from all Chicago hospitals...
Last week Dr. Jerger journeyed to Washington to see how his case would look to Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold. Meanwhile, in Manhattan, he eased his mind: "Mark Twain told me that this was a land of free speech and liberty. Well, so it is, but Dr. Fishbein [Morris Fishbein, A. M. A. spokesman and Journal editor] is a dictator, a Hitler. I believe in organized medicine. Socialization is fatal. But the trouble here is too much concentrated power, power that will not stand for criticism. So I am going down to Washington and see what can be done...