Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-11
FOR MER PALATKA
PRACTIONEER IS
BEING SHOWN UP
Medical Journal Gets
Evidence of Crooked
Work by Page
PRACT|C|NG IN TAMPA
Was Under Cloud When
He Left Palatka a
Year Ago

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In the current issue of The Jour
nal of the American Medical Asso-
citation is published an expose of al
legged efforts of C. Wade Page, for
merly a practitioner in Palatka, to
secure reproductions of diplomas. 1t
has bee nproven in times past that
diplomas have been reproduced and
sold to persons who had not regularly
secured them from an accredited
medical college.
CDR" Page came to Palatka about
two years ago and began practicing
under the advertised speciality title
of "eye, ear, nose and throat" He
exhibited what purported to be a
diploma from an eclectic medical COL
lege, but at the time he left Palatka
an investigation was being conducted
by the Florida Medican association,
and it was intimated that criminal
action might be taken against him.
So far as known, the matter dropped
when Page moved to Tampa The
story from The Medical Journal is
self-eXplanatory, and in addition to
the text carries Photographic copies
of the diploma Page is alleged to
have submitted for reproductions and
a Photographic copy of letter sign
ed by Page and edwin Younkin,
Dean" of "the American Medical Col
lege." Pages name is signed as
secretary" The story from The
Journal follows:
Charles Wade Page is tpresent
practicing in Tampa, Fla, on the ba-
sis of license issued by the eclectic
board of medical examiners of Flor
ida in December, 1919. The state
law of Florida at the time Pages IL
cense was issued, required as a pre-
requisite to licensing, the possession
of diploma or a certificate of grad
uation from a medical college. So
far as our records show, Page pos
sesses no such diploma or certificate
and has never been graduated by any
medical college.
In August, 1919, tn Geographical
of the American Medical
association sent Page personal in
formation blank requesting him to
give data regarding his graduation,
licensure, etc. This was done be-
cause Page in submitting an adver-
tisement for insertion in The journal
had signed himself Or" while the
records failed to show any man of |
this name legally entitled to call |!
himself physician. In reply to this /!
request for information, Page wrote !
in part:
4 cannot fill out your card because
have a year to do before I grad
late. | have temporary license to
practice medicine in Florida for 1919.
This license was given me by the
BOARD so l could earn enough money
20 complete my education
"This, it should be borne in mind,
vas il, August, 1919, when he had "a
year to do before he would be grad
lated; yet license was issued in
December, 1919. Either Pages state
nent tina the was practicing on a
license was a falsehood or
he law had been violated, as Florida
makes no provision for issuance of
temporary licenses to any but grad
lates.
"In 1920, when Page was practic-
ng, in Palatka, Fla, The Journal
vas informed that Page had been
raveling for an optical house spend
ng day or two at various places
lifting glasses. Prior to that he was
aid t ohave been connected in some
with an insurance concern. !,
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