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444 NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL JOURNAL September, 1950 ;r tary, naval, or air service of any country at war will be returned pro rata to the insured." This Committee believes that the Society, through its normal representatives, should consider a revision of the section of the policy and for the following reasons: 1. It is prejudicial to the best interests of the individual insured physician and to mental and nervous diseases generally. It is the position of this Committee that protection from the ordinary consequence of mental and nervous disease, irrespective of cause, should be covered in the same way as any other illness. Similarly, that suicide in the physician is in general a symptomatic act and should be so interpreted by the insuror. This Committee recognizes that the physician is now nearer to death from suicide than from tuberculosis and that erroneous conception of mental and nervous disease and its discriminatory handling is a factor in obstructing a preventive program. 2. The section of the policy cited is in opposition to the interests of the promotion of world peace through the internationalization of medicine and the visits and exchanges essential to a sharing of science and culture between physicians in this and other countries. 3. It is the impression of this Committee that the United States is technically, though disputably, in a state of war; it follows that protection of the physician who returns to active duty as an officer or as a consultant in one of the national services is jeopardized. It is believed that the best immediate and concrete action might be a request that this same insurance company offer a separate policy, or policies, with appropriate compensatory increase in late, to those physicians who desire one or all of the additional protections. Where travel and service defects of protection are concerned, it appears likely that the Society's designated insuror could in this way collect premiums otherwise paid to companies issuing specific short-term protection. This Committee believes that more stringent control should be exercised regarding the sale of bar-bituate and bromide preparations. It is our considered opinion that prescriptions for these drugs should not be refilled, in the same way as prescriptions for opium and related drugs cannot be refilled. The Committee recognizes that the direct sale of barbituates is continuing, despite existing laws, and believes that steps to terminate this abuse should be instituted and that legislation to terminate the sale of bromide-containing preparations, except as prescribed by a physician, should be enacted. This Committee has followed the changes in legislation, in other states, concerning sexual psychopathy, its management by the courts, and the obligatory or elective commitment to a psychiatric hospital of the individual sexually psychopathic person apprehended in acts defined as criminal by statute. Your committee is likewise familiar with the active interest of public spirited and capably guided organizations in North Carolina expecting to submit suggestions for changes in the next meeting of the legislature. This Committee considers medical guidance and suggested changes of laws in matters of this sort as the normal function of the Society's Committee on Crime and Psychiatry; likewise, that participation of the Society's members through county organizations, as suggested by the American Medical Association, will be invaluable in avoiding the enactment of statutes which have proven impracticable in other states as well as in securing legislation which eliminates the confusion between crime and illness or defect. We have continued to work in close cooperation with the State Board of Medical Examiners. At the present time we feel that the question of the use of narcotics so far as the doctors are concerned, is far from being solved. We would like to remind you that all local societies are to act as counselors for their own county in regard to the behavior of the physicians. ALLYN B. CHOATE, M.D., Chairman DAVID A. YOUNG, M.D. LLOYD J. THOMPSON, M.D. JOHN F. OWEN, M.D. R. BURKE SUITT, M.D. Report adopted by the House of Delegates, May 1, 1950. Report of Committee Concerning Political Activities I was appointed Chairman of a Committee which concerns itself with the role of the Medical Society and of the physicians of this State in the selection of our representatives in Congress and in the Legislature of our State. With regard to the role of our Society as an organization, I can dispose of that with a brief quotation from the opinion of our legal counsel as follows: "The Medical Society of North Carolina, and its local branches, cannot legally support or oppose a candidate for public office, endorse a particular candidate by resolution or advertisement, or use Medical Society funds or facilities on behalf of a candidate. This, however, does not prevent the Society from taking a stand upon issues or public questions, or from encouraging people to exercise their right to vote." I think it is my duty to tell you, however, that as an individual, it is not only your right, but your duty as a private citizen to aggressively further the candidacy of the man you know will fight for the principles and causes in which you believe. While no use may be made of any official position or office in the organization, this does not prevent the President or any other official of any Society from engaging in political activity as an individual, or from serving on any political activity committee, as long as he does not use the title of his office in so doing. That prohibition, of course, applies to the signing of a letter of endorsement for any candidate on the letterhead or above the title of the Medical Society Office. The question of socialized medicine has become the blazing focal point of the entire controversy over whether or not American people are ready to abandon ship and exchange their independence for State Socialism. The whole basic issue may well turn on our issue, and likewise, our issue will be determined by the nomination and election of representatives opposed to the general socialistic trend in government. As pointed out by the Society leaders all over the country, and particularly at the Second National Conference of the American Medical Association Educational Campaign: "It is critically important that American doctors do everything in their power this year to stop the march of socialism in this country—and to stop it at the polls by aiding in the election of Congressmen who will refuse to compromise on American principles." For your guidance and information, I quote further from the outline of strategy and policies given at the Second National Conference of the American Medical Association in February of this year, as follows: "There may be some doctors who are still unconvinced that they should engage in practical politics, but I believe that most
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Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1940-2001] |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- Periodicals.; Physicians -- North Carolina -- Directory.; Societies, Medical -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Includes Transactions of the Society, -1960; 1961- , Transactions issued separately, bound in.; Includes Transactions of the auxiliary to the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina and Proceedings of the North Carolina Public Health Association. Official organ of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1940-May 1972; of the North Carolina Medical Society, June 1972-. Vols. for 1940-May 1972 published by the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina; June 1972- by the North Carolina Medical Society. |
Contributor | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Transactions.; Medical Society of the State of North Carolina.; North Carolina Medical Society.; North Carolina Medical Society. Transactions.; North Carolina Public Health Association. Proceedings. |
Publisher | [Winston-Salem] : North Carolina Medical Society [etc.], 1940- |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
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Date | 1950 |
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Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1940-2001] |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- Periodicals.; Physicians -- North Carolina -- Directory.; Societies, Medical -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Includes Transactions of the Society, -1960; 1961- , Transactions issued separately, bound in.; Includes Transactions of the auxiliary to the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina and Proceedings of the North Carolina Public Health Association. Official organ of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1940-May 1972; of the North Carolina Medical Society, June 1972-. Vols. for 1940-May 1972 published by the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina; June 1972- by the North Carolina Medical Society. |
Contributor | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Transactions.; Medical Society of the State of North Carolina.; North Carolina Medical Society.; North Carolina Medical Society. Transactions.; North Carolina Public Health Association. Proceedings. |
Publisher | [Winston-Salem] : North Carolina Medical Society [etc.], 1940- |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1950 |
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Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 11 |
Issue Number | 8 |
Page Number | 444 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 444 NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL JOURNAL September, 1950 ;r tary, naval, or air service of any country at war will be returned pro rata to the insured." This Committee believes that the Society, through its normal representatives, should consider a revision of the section of the policy and for the following reasons: 1. It is prejudicial to the best interests of the individual insured physician and to mental and nervous diseases generally. It is the position of this Committee that protection from the ordinary consequence of mental and nervous disease, irrespective of cause, should be covered in the same way as any other illness. Similarly, that suicide in the physician is in general a symptomatic act and should be so interpreted by the insuror. This Committee recognizes that the physician is now nearer to death from suicide than from tuberculosis and that erroneous conception of mental and nervous disease and its discriminatory handling is a factor in obstructing a preventive program. 2. The section of the policy cited is in opposition to the interests of the promotion of world peace through the internationalization of medicine and the visits and exchanges essential to a sharing of science and culture between physicians in this and other countries. 3. It is the impression of this Committee that the United States is technically, though disputably, in a state of war; it follows that protection of the physician who returns to active duty as an officer or as a consultant in one of the national services is jeopardized. It is believed that the best immediate and concrete action might be a request that this same insurance company offer a separate policy, or policies, with appropriate compensatory increase in late, to those physicians who desire one or all of the additional protections. Where travel and service defects of protection are concerned, it appears likely that the Society's designated insuror could in this way collect premiums otherwise paid to companies issuing specific short-term protection. This Committee believes that more stringent control should be exercised regarding the sale of bar-bituate and bromide preparations. It is our considered opinion that prescriptions for these drugs should not be refilled, in the same way as prescriptions for opium and related drugs cannot be refilled. The Committee recognizes that the direct sale of barbituates is continuing, despite existing laws, and believes that steps to terminate this abuse should be instituted and that legislation to terminate the sale of bromide-containing preparations, except as prescribed by a physician, should be enacted. This Committee has followed the changes in legislation, in other states, concerning sexual psychopathy, its management by the courts, and the obligatory or elective commitment to a psychiatric hospital of the individual sexually psychopathic person apprehended in acts defined as criminal by statute. Your committee is likewise familiar with the active interest of public spirited and capably guided organizations in North Carolina expecting to submit suggestions for changes in the next meeting of the legislature. This Committee considers medical guidance and suggested changes of laws in matters of this sort as the normal function of the Society's Committee on Crime and Psychiatry; likewise, that participation of the Society's members through county organizations, as suggested by the American Medical Association, will be invaluable in avoiding the enactment of statutes which have proven impracticable in other states as well as in securing legislation which eliminates the confusion between crime and illness or defect. We have continued to work in close cooperation with the State Board of Medical Examiners. At the present time we feel that the question of the use of narcotics so far as the doctors are concerned, is far from being solved. We would like to remind you that all local societies are to act as counselors for their own county in regard to the behavior of the physicians. ALLYN B. CHOATE, M.D., Chairman DAVID A. YOUNG, M.D. LLOYD J. THOMPSON, M.D. JOHN F. OWEN, M.D. R. BURKE SUITT, M.D. Report adopted by the House of Delegates, May 1, 1950. Report of Committee Concerning Political Activities I was appointed Chairman of a Committee which concerns itself with the role of the Medical Society and of the physicians of this State in the selection of our representatives in Congress and in the Legislature of our State. With regard to the role of our Society as an organization, I can dispose of that with a brief quotation from the opinion of our legal counsel as follows: "The Medical Society of North Carolina, and its local branches, cannot legally support or oppose a candidate for public office, endorse a particular candidate by resolution or advertisement, or use Medical Society funds or facilities on behalf of a candidate. This, however, does not prevent the Society from taking a stand upon issues or public questions, or from encouraging people to exercise their right to vote." I think it is my duty to tell you, however, that as an individual, it is not only your right, but your duty as a private citizen to aggressively further the candidacy of the man you know will fight for the principles and causes in which you believe. While no use may be made of any official position or office in the organization, this does not prevent the President or any other official of any Society from engaging in political activity as an individual, or from serving on any political activity committee, as long as he does not use the title of his office in so doing. That prohibition, of course, applies to the signing of a letter of endorsement for any candidate on the letterhead or above the title of the Medical Society Office. The question of socialized medicine has become the blazing focal point of the entire controversy over whether or not American people are ready to abandon ship and exchange their independence for State Socialism. The whole basic issue may well turn on our issue, and likewise, our issue will be determined by the nomination and election of representatives opposed to the general socialistic trend in government. As pointed out by the Society leaders all over the country, and particularly at the Second National Conference of the American Medical Association Educational Campaign: "It is critically important that American doctors do everything in their power this year to stop the march of socialism in this country—and to stop it at the polls by aiding in the election of Congressmen who will refuse to compromise on American principles." For your guidance and information, I quote further from the outline of strategy and policies given at the Second National Conference of the American Medical Association in February of this year, as follows: "There may be some doctors who are still unconvinced that they should engage in practical politics, but I believe that most |
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