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Show Waft Board of Medical Examiners to Adopt Ruling On Licenses for Refugee Physicians From Europe A question that ha perplexed the atat board of medical examiner exam-iner lnc European refugee physician phy-sician have coma to the United State In Urge number I expected ex-pected to be disposed of next Wednesday Wed-nesday when the board meet at the atat capltol. . Laat year th board, fearing alien phyaician seeking to obtain Utah license to practice medicine would result In too many doctors for the state, adopted a regulation providing that license would be Issued only to those having American Ameri-can citizenship. This ruling waa declared In an opinion of the attorney general to be Illegal and It waa held there could be no barring of th prac- tlr of medicine on th grounds of lack of citltenahlp. Since, according to G. V. Billings, director of th state department of registration, there hav been hundred of quelle from European Euro-pean refuge physicians concerning concern-ing Utah regulation. Six formal applications for license hsv been made. Th board of medical examiners, Mr. Billing said, has mad no ruling on thee cases, but at th Wedenaday meeting It U expected that the matter will be closed by the adoption of a resolution providing pro-viding that only those who hav attended schools approved by the examining board can be licensed. |