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December, 1961 HYPERTENSION FOLLOWING NEPHRECTOMY—ROBICSEK AND OTHERS 585 Tke Montk in Waskin^ton The American Medical Association and the federal government declared all-out war on medical quacks and charlatans who milk the sick and gullible of hundreds of millions of dollars each year through useless 1 gadgets, phony nostrums, fake reducing pills, and the many other gimmicks of the medicine show trade. The campaign was launched at the First National Congress on Medical Quackery, under the joint sponsorship of the A.M.A. and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, October 6-7 at the Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington. Among the keynote speakers were two top officials in President Kennedy's cabinet, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Abraham A. Ribicoff and Postmaster General J. Edward Day. Leonard W. Larson, M.D., president of the A.M.A., and Oliver Field, Director of the A.M.A. Department of Investigation, spoke for organized medicine. Others on the program included Herbert J. Miller, assistant U.S. attorney general in charge of the criminal division; George P. Larrick, commissioner of the FDA, and Paul Rand Dixon, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. Other speakers included representatives of the American Cancer Society, the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, and the National Better Business Bureau. C. Joseph Stetler, director of the Legal and Socio-Economic Division of the A.M.A. presided at the meeting. Many state and county medical societies from throughout the nation sent representatives to the Congress. They carried back to their societies plans for cooperation with enforcement agencies at the local level and for a step-up of public education on the subject in an accelerated campaign against quacks. Highlights of the talks included: —Larson: "We must educate the public thoroughly and effectively. We must wage psychological as well as scientific warfare. From the Washington Office of the American Medical Association. We must not only prove the worthlessness of quackery, but we also must establish confidence in sound medical and health care. "Speaking for the American Medical Association and our 180,000 physician-members, I pledge our efforts to the final eradication of quackery and all its minions and satraps." —Ribicoff: "The total cost of unnecessary or dangerous medications in this country probably exceeds $1 billion each year. Much of this expense is to men, women, and children who dearly need this money for good medical care or for other necessities of life. "But quackery's costs in dollars only introduces the story. In terms of false hopes raised, in terms of ugly delusions fostered, in terms of tinkering with human life itself, the cost cannot be measured. The quack flirts with disaster. He challenges the sixth Commandment: Thou shalt not kill.' " —Larrick: "The most widespread and expensive type of quackery in the United States today is in the promotion of vitamin products, special dietary foods, and food supplements. Millions of consumers are being misled concerning their need for such products. Complicating this problem is a vast and growing 'folk-lore' or 'mythology' of nutrition which is being built up by pseudo-scientific literature in books, pamphlets, and periodicals. As a result, millions of people are attempting self-medication for imaginary and real illnesses with a multiude of more or less irrational food items. Food quackery today can only be compared to the patent medicine craze which reached its height in the last century. Especially disturbing is the tendency shown by some big and hitherto respected food concerns to use quackery in their sales material." —Dixon: "Properly drafted and administered, legislation giving the Federal Trade Commission power to issue temporary cease-and-desist orders would, while observing all the requirements of due process, make it possible to protect the public interest more adequately in many areas. "Although in the case of food, drug, and cosmetic advertising, the Commission can . . . apply to district courts for temporary
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Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1940-Present] |
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- |
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Date | 1961 |
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Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1940-Present] |
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 | 1961 |
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Page Type | all; organizational news |
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 | 22 |
Issue Number | 11 |
Page Number | 585 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | December, 1961 HYPERTENSION FOLLOWING NEPHRECTOMY—ROBICSEK AND OTHERS 585 Tke Montk in Waskin^ton The American Medical Association and the federal government declared all-out war on medical quacks and charlatans who milk the sick and gullible of hundreds of millions of dollars each year through useless 1 gadgets, phony nostrums, fake reducing pills, and the many other gimmicks of the medicine show trade. The campaign was launched at the First National Congress on Medical Quackery, under the joint sponsorship of the A.M.A. and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, October 6-7 at the Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington. Among the keynote speakers were two top officials in President Kennedy's cabinet, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Abraham A. Ribicoff and Postmaster General J. Edward Day. Leonard W. Larson, M.D., president of the A.M.A., and Oliver Field, Director of the A.M.A. Department of Investigation, spoke for organized medicine. Others on the program included Herbert J. Miller, assistant U.S. attorney general in charge of the criminal division; George P. Larrick, commissioner of the FDA, and Paul Rand Dixon, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. Other speakers included representatives of the American Cancer Society, the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, and the National Better Business Bureau. C. Joseph Stetler, director of the Legal and Socio-Economic Division of the A.M.A. presided at the meeting. Many state and county medical societies from throughout the nation sent representatives to the Congress. They carried back to their societies plans for cooperation with enforcement agencies at the local level and for a step-up of public education on the subject in an accelerated campaign against quacks. Highlights of the talks included: —Larson: "We must educate the public thoroughly and effectively. We must wage psychological as well as scientific warfare. From the Washington Office of the American Medical Association. We must not only prove the worthlessness of quackery, but we also must establish confidence in sound medical and health care. "Speaking for the American Medical Association and our 180,000 physician-members, I pledge our efforts to the final eradication of quackery and all its minions and satraps." —Ribicoff: "The total cost of unnecessary or dangerous medications in this country probably exceeds $1 billion each year. Much of this expense is to men, women, and children who dearly need this money for good medical care or for other necessities of life. "But quackery's costs in dollars only introduces the story. In terms of false hopes raised, in terms of ugly delusions fostered, in terms of tinkering with human life itself, the cost cannot be measured. The quack flirts with disaster. He challenges the sixth Commandment: Thou shalt not kill.' " —Larrick: "The most widespread and expensive type of quackery in the United States today is in the promotion of vitamin products, special dietary foods, and food supplements. Millions of consumers are being misled concerning their need for such products. Complicating this problem is a vast and growing 'folk-lore' or 'mythology' of nutrition which is being built up by pseudo-scientific literature in books, pamphlets, and periodicals. As a result, millions of people are attempting self-medication for imaginary and real illnesses with a multiude of more or less irrational food items. Food quackery today can only be compared to the patent medicine craze which reached its height in the last century. Especially disturbing is the tendency shown by some big and hitherto respected food concerns to use quackery in their sales material." —Dixon: "Properly drafted and administered, legislation giving the Federal Trade Commission power to issue temporary cease-and-desist orders would, while observing all the requirements of due process, make it possible to protect the public interest more adequately in many areas. "Although in the case of food, drug, and cosmetic advertising, the Commission can . . . apply to district courts for temporary |
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