Letters, Jan. 7, 1974

Free-Enterprise Medicine

Sir / I cannot allow your statements regarding Professional Standards Review Organizations [Dec. 17] to go unchallenged. As a practicing physician for 15 years, I feel that I am the better judge of what is good for medicine than some Washington bureaucrat. Your article leads one to think that Americans are dying by the thousands because of the incompetency of the American doctor. Nothing is farther from the truth. American medicine is recognized worldwide as being the best.

Wake up to the realization that American medicine is the last bulwark of free...

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