Show Brady Brady Says Profit From Medical Patents Stirs C Numerous Questions 1 1 y 1 y William Brady MD M.D. 2 it t American medicine has avast 1 vast strides in the past pastry pastry I attested ry is sufficiently I ie mention anesthesia 34 and andIs Is insulin b k f 1 ulin n. n Well Vell onto hang L- L 1 hats ats Here s again agam I I Code of ofal al al Ethics ally writ fA fAal 1 and md pro pro- ted by the can Med Med- Dr Brady j 1 I sn and still sponsored by byI organization with minor and as the Principles leal ical Ethics rather than the for lor some obscure reason ed led this provision Quotes Section 5 Article 1 Chap Ill nI It It professional to receive re rc- ration from patients or on surgical i appliances medicines methods the American America Medical I itself sanctified and de- de dethe 1 the patenting of insulin s true that most of the rei re- re i ration tion from the patent on onT T which P C I ron Cot 9 made in- in sulin more costly for the hundreds hundreds hun hun- of thousands ls of diabetics I who have to have it were it-were were given to education and research I Nostrum rostrum Business Business' The other day a news item told of the donation of huge sums to education and research by a nostrum vendor who directed in his will that two dollars out of every three dollars profit made by his nostrum business should go to education and research forever for for- ever or something like that Does this philanthropic gesture justify the exaction of such huge profits from the sucker public or does it make respectable the of such money for medical research research research re re- re- re search o 0 r education i if f the nostrum in question has been branded as dangerous or harmful harmful harmful harm harm- ful by the American Medical 1 Status of Practice The fhe lowering status of general practice and the family physician is largely the responsibility of the general practitioners those practitioners those who are left left themselves They just dust carry carryon on and preserve a dignified silence while specialists now outnumber outnumber outnumber out out- number general practitioners You family doctors ought to take a gander at the volume of newspaper p r articles s distributed d throughout UlouS the tho COUlt country COUlty y by th hs ho I A AM M A. A Some of it inadvertently comes come to me mc You family doctors err in your tacit acceptance of the clinic You play against your own best interest when you go along with the practice of delivering obstetric obstetric obstetric ob ob- patients in an institution instead of attending them at home borne You cant can't blame the public for what is happening to the family doctor as an institution QUESTIONS ANSWERS J Longevity it a Vascular Question Please send pamphlet Longevity Longe- Longe ity is a 3 Vascular Question spoken of in your column recently en R. R C. C V. V Answer Answer- I quoted that from Osier Osler in an article about nutrition nutrition nutrition tion and vite the vite-the the difference between between between be be- tween young and old folks Arent Aren't We e All AllNe We Ve always enjoy enjo your down to earth advice Answer Answer So So do I about a great many things outside of my own little province Thank you for your pleasant letter Pimples My l son is very unhappy because because because be be- cause his face is covered with pimples Mrs 1 D. D R. R Answer Answer So So was I at that age Some of the remedies suggested in the acne pamphlet may be helpful If not let the boy write Tite me again Any reader who asks for it in writing and stamped self-addressed self envelope may have a copy of the pamphlet on Acne Blackheads Acne Blackheads and Pim Pim- ples But r remember m mb r a 2 r reasonable reasonable reason reason- able abl number numb r o. o 0 of pimples and blac are not Hot at t 2 all 1 b bad d for forthe forthe forthe the average boy and nd even even for some girls in their early teens S Write r Dr Dl Brad Brady Brad care of The Salt Lake Tribune-Telegram Tribune Home Service Bureau Salt Lake City 10 Utah |