Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
DOCTORS PROTEST
VETERAN BENEFITS
Term Hospital Disability
Care, Not Due to War, Un-
just Competition.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, June 9.-The House
of Delegates of the American Medical
Association today adopted resolution
urging Congress and the American
Legion ito abandon the policy OF
rendering hospital and medical Dcne-
fits to veterans CT the World War with
non service connected disability and
substitute therefore plan of disability
insurance benefits"
The resolution stated that the Gov
eminent policy of treating veterans for
disability not connected with their war
service Is unnecessary and unjust
competition with the civilian hospital
and the medical profession"
The resolution was presented Jester-
day by DR.. H. H. Shoulders OF Nash
vile, Tenn.
The disability insurance benefits
suggested by the resolution would in
clude the payment of a weekly cash
benefit during a period OF tota! ols-
ability and the payment OF liberal nos
pital benefits sufficient to cover the
hospital expenses CT veteran for any
disability.
Ask Licensure Probe.
Among other resolutions passed was
one calling for survey by the Councll
of Medical Education in the Hospitals
of discrimination being exercised IN
various foreign countries against grad
yates Of American medical colleges rel
ative to the granting OF licensure by
reciprocity"
The condition complained of, it was
pointed out, prevails in certain central
and South American countries.
Another resolution was passed favor
N,r he onrniYof mont nf comm SS1On
on qualification for specialists to de-
fine qualifications required OF physicians
who desire to limit their practice tc
any special field as a specialist.
A motion to have the United States
Veterans Bureau made ex-officio mem
Der of the association with representa-
ton in the House Of Delegates was
tabled.
A resolution to accede to the request
of the States of New York and West
Virginia for the appointment OF COM
mttee to classify foreign medica
schools on the same basis as applied II
this country was also passed The
House also voted TO discourage the prac-
tice of certain medical schools allowing
''repeaters," students who failed in some
of their courses, to take them over
again.
DR.. C. B. Wright of Minneapolis
MILL, pTcScIlLGQ lCSOlutAOkl
that the proposed new building for the
Army Medical Library be constructed
as near the Congressional Library III
Washington as possible instead OF al
the Walter Reed Hospital.
DR.. Henry Johnson Ullman of Santa
Barbara, Calf, yesterday rebuked many
physicians for their entirely unjustified'
attitude toward hopelessness with which
they regard cancer cases.
Speaking at the American Radium
Society meeting. he said adequate means
of treatment which prolong life and
sometimes effect cures have been found.
He compared the attitude toward
cancer, the red plague" as similar to
tuberculosis. the white plague" several
years ago, and said that treatments for
cancer were gaining, just as those for
tuberculosis have assisted cures for that
disease.
He urged his hearers to become "op-
timistic" and to become better &C
quainted with experiments and cures
with radium and other cancer treat
ments.F