Doctors and the press; mass medication; smoking and carcinoma.

Abstract

AN eminent English physician told me how he once delivered a paper at the annual meeting of the Young Turks in Atlantic City. To his consternation and to the embarrassment of his American hosts, a full report appeared in the evening newspaper. He assured his friends that he had held no press conference and had spoken to no one outside the medical profession since reading his paper. He told them that he had gone straight from the meeting to the Chalfont Haddon Hotel, where the only stranger he had spoken to was a good-looking woman medical student, who had approached . . .