TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION OF THE UNITED STATES

John A Wyeth

doi:10.1001/jama.1902.02480190038002

Abstract

The necessity for a thorough organization of the medical profession was never more urgent than at the present moment, nor has the appreciation of this necessity ever been more keenly felt than at this time. The American Medical Association, which will hold its fifty-third annual session at Saratoga on June 10, 1902, being the only national representative association of the medical profession in the United States, is entitled to and claims the earnest support of every medical practitioner who has at heart the highest and best interests of the profession. An organized profession represented in this great central bodv with affiliated and influential state and territorial associations extending through their subdivisions into all the districts or counties, is the only real guarantee of the protection of the public health and of the medical profession. The enactment and enforcement of rigid medical laws; the establishment of reciprocity or interstate comity by

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The address recently delivered by Dr A
Of New York, before the International Medical Congress, on tlie subject of Medicine and Physicians in the United States, contained much that was interesting as indicating the position occupied by the medical profession in America
The power to confer degrees differed in the various schools of the 45 States composing the Union, and the low standards permitted in many of the professional schools was due to failure to subject the degree-giving power to strict State supervision

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Of New York, before the International Medical Congress, on tlie subject of Medicine and Physicians in the United States, contained much that was interesting as indicating the position occupied by the medical profession in America. He said that there were 156 medical schools in the United States, with 24,119 students, the number of the latter having increased 142 per cent, in the last 21 years.

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