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barred from most of the hospitals in
the city.
! Not all members Of the medical pro-
fession in this city are members Of
the Medical Society, Mr.. Kirkpatrick
said. He estimated that between 500
and 600 doctors licensed properly to
| practice medicine here do not belong
to the society.
Charging that misleading state
ments had been disseminated about the
alleged low pay of physicians in the
employ of Group Health, Mr.. Kirk
patrick made public the salaries of
G. H. A. doctors and compared them
with what he said were reliable" fig
ures as to the actual income of physi-
clans in private practice in the Dis
trict
The pay Of Dr. Henry Rolf Brown
head physician of G. H. A., is $1,000
year, Mr.. kirkpatrick said Three
of the staff physicians receive $4,000.
and none get less than $500. He
made these figures public, he said,
because Of rumors being spread to
the effect that G. H. A. doctors re-
ceived only $4,000. and that no good
doctor could be obtained at that SAL
ary. Each gets a months vacation
with pay, and travel allowances for
calls at patients homes
From figures which Mr.. Kirkpatrick
said were reliable" he said that fewer
than 10 per cent of the private physi-
clans in Washington net" salary
of more than $4,000 More than half
the doctors in this city. MIR. Kirkpat-
rick said, are shown from the same
sources to nave gross income" of
less than $4,000
Doctors on Contract Cited.
To support G. H. AS contention Of
its right to employ physicians here
in contractural capacity, Mr.. Kirk
patrick said he and his associates in
troduced into the record OF the hear
ing before the Medical Society Ex-
ecutive Committee testimony to show
that several corporations here, includ-
ing some of the public utilities, pay
physicians for clinical services.
In this connection, Mr. Kirkpatrick
said there was submitted the names
of all police surgeons who work under
contract. The names of the corpora
tions and the names of physicians SO
engaged were entered in the record.
The record itself was taken steno-
graphically, Mr. Kirkpatrick said. 1t
amounts to Ala pages, and G. H. A.
paid half the cost of this, $l44, he
added
The hearing was presided over by
DR.. Edward Hiram Reede, chairman
of the Executive Committee. The
society was represented by its counsel,
Hoover, Leahy and Fenning, while G.
H. A. was represented by Horace Rus
SELL general counsel Of H. O. L. c.;
Luke E. Keeley, E. X. Neumann and
A. Blaine York.
G. H. A. In Court Already.
G., H. A. already is in District Court
for test case on its status. The case
was filed by G. H. A. itself, after Med
ical Society counsel and the District
corporation counsel had expressed be-
lief that it was operating illegally.
The suit. filed under the new declara-
tory judgment act. is still pending.
DR.. Scandiffio has had wide expert
ence here. He attended Columbia
University for academic and pre-med-
ical work and received the degrees of
A. B. and M. D. at George Washing
ton University He served his interne-
ship in New York Post Graduate Hos
pital and Medical School and later
was clinical supervisor and instruc-
tor in pediatrics at Georgetown. Uni
versity Medical School and a teacher
of pediatrics to nurses Of Children's
Hospital and its afiiliates. He had
been attending pediatrician at sew
eral hospitals here.
DR.. Scandifho Is the second member
Of the Medical Society to come under
fire because of his connection with
Group Health Association. Similar
charges had been filed by the society
against DR.. Allan E. Lee, a general
internalist" then on the staff Of G. H.
A. Dr. Lee resigned from G. H. A. and
Is still in good standing with the
Medical Society.
Originally the charges against DR..
Lee and DR.. Scandiffio were heard by
a special committee. DR.. Scandiff1o's
case was finally heard by the Executive
Committee