Evening star., 1938-04-27
.HULBURT RESIGNS
ASG. H. A. DOCTOR
AFTER $1OO RAISE
Feels There Are Too Many
Patients for Highest
Type of Service.
Statement FOLLOWS
SHAFER'S DEMANDS
Introduces House Resolution
Directing Legal Action to
Recover $4,000.

Dr. r. Stephen Hulburt, whose sal
ary as a staff physician for Group
Health Association, Inc, was raised
sl0O a month only last week, said to.
day he had resigned to re-enter pri-
vate practice mainly because there
were so many people to take care Of
In Group Health that he did not
feel able to give them the highest
type OF medical service"
His statement followed an assertion
by Representative Shafer, Republican,
OF MICHIGAN that DR.. Henry Holph
Brown had resigned as G.. H. A. nedi.
cal director last week because things
are going on in which he refuses to be-
involved further" Mr.. Shafer de.
manded that Congress Clean up the
ugly mess" in Group Health.
Mr.. Shafer introduced a resolution
calling for a House Investigation Of
G. H. A, and another directing the
Attorney General to take immediate
legal action to recover the $4,000
which he charged had been Illegally
expended by the Home Owners Loan
Corp. in setting up G. H. A.
6. H. A. Won't "Giye Up.s
These developments were described
by a G. H. A. spokesman as only
further evidences of continual ham,
mering' at the Group Health program
by critics supporting the opposition to
Its activities by the District Medical
Society.
With mo disposition to give up,"
the spokesman said, G. H. A. officials
are negotiating with an out-of-town
physician to succeed DR.. Brown as
medical director in an effort to Sc
cure a man above the influence of
the local controversy.
DR.. Hulburt's resignation yesterday,
effective Immediately, came as a sur
prise to G. H. A. officials, who said
his work had been excellent and that
he had been well liked by Group Health
members. Only week ago Monday
night, it was disclosed, he had an
peared before the G.. H. A. Board of
Trustees and asked for a raise in
salary.
Voted Pay Raise.
The trustees voted without hesita.
ton to increase his salary from So, 500
TO $4,000 year, the G. H. A. spokes.
man said. At that time, he added. Dr..
Hulburt appeared well satisfied with
his position.
DR.. Hulburt said his resignation was
not due to the controversy over G. H.
A. activities. but that he had decided
after six months in the group health
field he preferred private practice
There are various reasons for this
| decision he explained Essentially,
I did not feel able to give the Group
Health people the highest type of
medical service because there were
too many people to take care Of.
However, l believe that under
proper organization and supervision
of organized medicine, they could
reach a solution of this problem"
Graduate of Georgetown.
DR.. Hubert, who was graduated
from Georgetown University Medical
School in 1881 and now lives at 5000
Dent place NV, said he had with
drawn an application for membership
in the District Medical Society when
he joined the Group Health staff last
fall. Now. he said, he probably will
seek to join the society again.
Representative Shafer's statement
said Dr. Brown will reveal only to
congressional committee his reasons
for resigning as G.. H. A. director.
He has watched the operations Of
G. H. A. day in and day out" he ex-
planned He has seen the manner in
which patiente are handled and the
grade of medical attention that is
given to them. For months he has
been in a position to compare the
service of this socialistic medical
agency with the service that he, as a
veteran physician knows that the
patient should receive; and he refused
to be party to 1t any longer"
Mr.. Shafer's resolution calling for an
investigation charged that G.. H. A.
insists upon a program that has been
declared to be unsound, illegal, un-
ethical and dangerous to the public
interest"
"Ohicials of the H. o. L. c." Mr..
Shafer charged. instead of devoting
their time to the duties for which the
Government pays them-the handling
OF the affairs of that organization-
have been using time to contact MEM
bers OF Congress. to bring pressure on
the District Medical Society, for this
reason or that reason. The publicity
staff Of the H. O. L. c. has been
pouring out continuous stream Of
poison propaganda on Government
time"
One Of the H. O. L. c. officials who
was moving spirit" behind G. H. A.,
Mr.. Shafer charged, was Horace Rus.
sell. who resigned as chief counsel,
after Representative Church. Repub-
lican, Of Illinois had attacked him on
the floor Of the House for using
franked envelopes to solicit legal busi-
ness for one Of his former associate
attorneys in H. o. L. c.
Mr.. Russell, according to Represent
ative Shafer, Is the legal counsel who
ruled that H. o. L. G. could make a
gift OF $4,000 of the taxpayers money
to G. H. A., which was done"
1T was this same Mr.. Russell" he
added. who advised G. H. A. to keen
on operating. in spite of the rulings Of
the corporation counsel and the United
States attorney that it was violating