One out of every ten practicing U.S. physicians laid aside his stethoscope last week, headed for Manhattan and the annual meeting of the A.M.A. There, 19,469 strong, reinforced by 36,378 medical students, nurses, technicians and other medical-minded kibitzers, they packed meetings at which 400 scientific papers were presented, window-shopped through 700 scientific and commercial exhibits. And a group of 196 doctors, members of the house of delegates, decided what face the A.M.A. should show the public, and what stand it should take on social and political issues.
Without visibly mounting blood pressure, the group adopted a new and greatly simplified code of...
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