Medicine: In Chicago

Weightiest problem brought before the American Medical Association's 30th Congress on Medical Education, Licensure and Hospitals, meeting in Chicago's Palmer House last week, was proposed by a law school dean, Duke's Justin Miller. His problem: "Whether to keep standards, as the law profession has done, so low that the profession is constantly concerned with the problem of eliminating shysters or, as physicians have done, to keep standards so high that the profession is constantly concerned by activities of quacks and fakirs outside."

For that dilemma the medical men had no quick solution. But...

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