Are doctors too cautious about letting the public in on medical news? Like many another layman, Associate Editor Steven M. Spencer of the Saturday Evening Post believes that doctors too often try to hide behind the shield of "medical ethics" when, asked for legitimate news. (Sometimes with good reason: if a doctor gets more "personal publicity" than his conservative colleagues approve, he runs the risk of being drummed out of his county medical society.) In a polite but firm letter to the Board of Censors of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, published last week, Layman Spencer gave the doctors a piece...
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