Evening star., 1941-03-03
DR.. TRIBE Tells Jury
OF Trouble Arisinq
From 6. H. A. Case
Called by Society After
Operating on Members
Son, He Relates

DR.. George B. Tribe, ear, nose and
throat specialist. today told the Dis
trict Court antitrust medical jury
how the District Medical Society, of
which he is a member, called him
before two of its committees to face
charges of violating its rules because
he had performed mastoid opera
ton on the son Of a member OF
Group Health Association, Inc.
Testimony to the jury in the form
of both documentary evidence and
DR.. Tribes personal story from the
witness stand showed the charges
against him had been dismissed
after he had been warned not to
have any more professional con-
nection with Group Health Asso-
citation.
DR.. Tribe described how he oper-
ated on the child, Louis Gilstrap,
at Children's Hospital November Is.
1887, removing a large abceSS.
Called Before Committees.
Later, the surgeon said, he was
called before two different commit
tees of the medical society to face
charges. He described a scene in
his own Office in which the charges
had been very Informally discussed
between him and DR.. r. Arthur
Hooe. chairman Of the society's
Compensation Contract and Indus
trial Medicine Committee.
During this conversation DR..
Tribe mentioned he had known the
medical director of Group Health,
DR. Henry Rolf Brown. for many
years and characterized him as "a
very fine fellow"
The charges against DR.. TRIBE
were outlined formally in an OFF,
cial communication from the Com
pensation Contract and Industrial
Medicine Committee, q copy of
which was admitted to the record
and read to the jury by John Henry
Levin, special assistant to the At
torney General, prosecution counsel.
The charges in brief were that DR..
Tribe had violated certain sections
of the society bylaws dealing with
submission of copies of contracts
with Group Health to the C. c. and
I. M. Committee. 1t was further
charged that he had engaged in
professional practice with an Or
ganization which was not recognized
by the District Medical Society.
The Government put DR.. Tribes
case into the record apparently to
support that part of prosecution
charges that organized medicine
conspired in violation of the Sher-
man Antitrust Act NOT only to
restrain G. H. A, its doctors, its
patients and the washington hos
pitals, but that Furthermore, it had
engaged illegally to restrict activi-
ties of its own members in practice
of medicine.
Cleared of Charges.
The two committees of the So
ciety before which DR.. Tribe ap-
peared and to which he submitted
certain statements and documents
were the C. C. and I. M. Committee
and the Executive Committee.
1t was the Executive Committee
which finally cleared DR.. Tribe of
the charges. He is still a member
of the society in good standing.
When court opened this morning
after the week end recess from Fri
day, the prosecution put on the
stand DR.. Walter A. Coole, secretary
of the Harris County (Tex.) Medical
Society, which is one of the four
medical group defendants. DR..
Coole identified a number of docu-
ments including several involving
DR.. Raymond E. Selders, member of
that society, who later became
medical director of Group Health
Association here.
The defendants in the case. in
addition to the Texas organization,
include the American Medical Asso-
citation, the District of Columbia
Medical Society, the Washington
Academy of Surgery and 20 individ-
ual doctors from Chicago and Wash
inot0n