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Show Utah Medical Assn. Pushes for Proper Legislation The next session of the Utah Legislature will be asked to pass a basic science law designed to protect the public's health from "quacks and cults," it was announced an-nounced this week. Calling Utah a "dumping ground" for unqualified unqua-lified persons who have little r no training in the healing arts, the Utah State Medical Association Associa-tion will seek passage of a law under which persons seeking to practice medicine, surgery, osteopathy, osteo-pathy, osteopathic surgery, chiro-practice chiro-practice and drugless medicine or naturopathy must take examinations exam-inations in five basic scientific fields. These would include anatomy, physiology, chemistry, patholoy, bacteriology or hygiene. The proposed examinations would be Hrau'n and ndministorcd by a panel of non-medical scientists from the University of Utah, Utah State University and Brigham Young University. To insure complete com-plete fairness, faculty men administering ad-ministering the tests would not know the names nor the prospective prospec-tive professions of persons taking tak-ing the examinations. The basic science law would not be retroactive, and would not affect persons now practicing practic-ing under license. The Salt Lake County, Weber County and Cache County Medical Societies have pledged to campaign for the basic ba-sic science law, with other county coun-ty societies due to swing into action ac-tion shortly. The statewide dental den-tal and pharmaceutical associations associa-tions are also due to press f r passage of the measure. Dr. V. L. Stepenson, chairman of the Utah State Medical Association's Asso-ciation's legislative Committee, reported that Arizona, Washington, Washing-ton, Oregon and Texas are now among states which protect their; people against untrained naturo paths and cultlsts, "making Utah a dumping ground for the region." re-gion." The proposed Utah law would be modeled upon one proving effective in Washington. |