Word: professionalization
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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The American Medical Association, fearing federal control and eventual nationalization of the profession, has voiced a strong protest while the Federal Security Administration, alarmed at the already exorbitant tuition's in many medical schools and the prospect of a doctor shortage, has fostered the government plan.
Actually, the AMA's deductions are consistent with the report made in 1932 by the Commission on Medical Education headed by President Lowell. That study predicted that if the maximum number of medical students graduated per year the physician population ratio would be 1 to 740. Furthermore, the report expressed...
Here again the doctors' organization is primarily afraid of H.R. 5940 as an overture to socialized medicine. They claim the bill would provide "a subsidy for the unqualified political appointees, nullifying efforts of admissions committees to maintain standards" and thereby causing the public to lose faith in the profession.
Within the profession itself, the AMA feels that a spirit of competition might develop between doctors that would hurt their practices. Worst of all, the group believes that the federal scholarships would extend one step further the encroachment of the government into the affairs of medical schools and lead eventually...
The AMA thinks that political interference would be the result of any government participation in the profession. But the bill explicitly states that "no officer, agency or department of the government shall influence the curriculum or choice of students in any way."