Medicine: Pre-Convention Problems

The American Medical Association will meet in Kansas City next month. Some 7,000 U. S. doctors will attend that annual convention. But only 172 members, delegates for the 101,754 A. M. A. members, will have anything authoritative to say, and that only between the authoritative gavel hangings of the Speaker of the House of Delegates, 70-year-old Dr. Nathan Bristol Van Etten of The Bronx.

By last week reports of the A. M. A.'s officers were ready. Noteworthy was Secretary Olin West's report on how the general public is being wooed to support the medical profession. Reported Dr. West: ''Constant progress is being...

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