Medicine: Docs Flock

Despite crowded trains, the doctor shortage and the scarcity of hotel rooms, doctors flocked last week to big meetings all over the U.S. Said the American Medical Association, which plans a Chicago meeting in June: "We just cannot postpone our scientific sessions any longer. . . . The ODT [told us] to go ahead if we felt it was necessary."

Most rambunctious meeting was that of the California Medical Association, which voted to try to oust Dr. Morris Fishbein as "spokesman for American medicine." Most gruesome meeting was that of the American Association for...

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