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...plot centers on a clash of principles and personalities between a messy old dear of a pathologist (Fredric March) and the slick young bug-detective (Ben Gazzara) called in to ease him out. The new boy is appalled by the unscientific squalor he finds in the pathology lab, which is one of the principal diagnostic tools in any hospital's kit. He lights a hot fire under March, but the old boy stubbornly refuses to budge. "My face is turning purple trying to swallow you," he rages, "but I will! I'm staying!" And the young man just...
...Larson has compromised each of these postulates in some degree: he is an eminent pathologist who masterminds a large group practice that pays wages to doctors yet charges patients fees for personal service. The irony is that a pathologist who symbolizes deviations and exceptions to the reactionary attitudes of our A.M.A. now is its president...
...Leonard Winfield Larson, 63, a short, folksy pathologist from Bismarck, N. Dak., will not lead A.M.A. down any radical paths; his denunciations of socialized medicine ring as loud as anyone's. Yet he is known in the organization for taking a step that a decade ago would have seemed unthinkable to A.M.A. After heading an investigating commission, Larson two years ago got A.M.A. to affirm the economic merits and medical quality of prepaid, closed-panel health-care plans -typically. New York's Health Insurance Plan (H.I.P...
...members, charge that this ponderous machinery keeps A.M.A. from reflecting the varied and open-minded attitudes of doctors themselves and gives rise to the common complaint that "we are respected as individuals but looked down on as a group." Yet no poll of medical opinion uncovers much dissent. Kansas Pathologist William Reals says, "It's the only voice the doctors have." His general-practitioner neighbor Walter Reazin adds: "I think its basic principles are right." If somewhat glacially, the House of Delegates does represent doctors. Yet A.M.A.'s week-to-week affairs must be left in the hands...
...Many pathologists never see a live patient; instead, they peer through a microscope at an excised piece of him. Larson is too social-minded for that sort of remoteness. Hired in 1924 to work at the Quain & Ramstad Clinic in Bismarck, he was North Dakota's only private-practice pathologist. He made his professional mark in diagnosing tumors, but felt that "pathologists should get out of the basement and see patients and examine them if necessary. They should be real consultants." A.M.A. duties keep him away from Bismarck more and more, but Dr. Larson still takes pride...