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Many physicians who disagreed with Dr. Boas' first statement agreed with his second. What the A.M.A. was doing might be all right for industry associations or organized labor. But doctors wondered how compulsory contributions for political purposes would affect the traditional position of the medical profession in U.S. life.
*Before the dues vote, any member of a county or state medical society who paid the $12 annual subscription to its Journal was a member of the A.M.A. The association has financed itself from Journal and other A.M.A. magazine subscriptions (topping $1,400,000 a year) and advertising (up to $3,500,000).
*Sir Luke Fildes' famous painting, now captioned by Whitaker & Baxter: "Keep Politics Out of This Picture."