THE PEDIATRICIAN AND THE PUBLIC

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1948 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 560-564
Author(s):  
WM. C. BLACK
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
American Medicine ◽  
The Common ◽  
American Children ◽  
Michigan Avenue ◽  
Fellow Member

I can draw no other conclusion from this report than that the results of our survey, with which nearly every one of us cooperated wholeheartely and honestly, are immediately being perverted, distorted, twisted, and prostituted to the frank, bold, shameless, support of an idealogy as foreign to everything which has gone to make American medicine what it is today—to make America what she is today—as were the tactics and philosophy of Hitler and Mussolini. This report, which would picture the medical care of American children as grossly inadequate, can only be drawn by comparing our present real status with an ideal, unreal, Utopian, starry-eyed-dreamer's view of a never-yet-attained state of perfection. The real fact of the excellence of life for America's children and the enormous expansion of America's child care compared with that of any other country is completely ignored! The authors of this report must be either stupid, or visionary, and our Executive Board, which approved the report, must suffer from one or both of the same disastrous defects. It is up to us, the common members of the American Academy of Pediatrics, to make ourselves heard in the high places of our organization immediately and with such vigor and unanimity that this report in its entirety will be disapproved and heartily condemned, and another committee appointed which will approach this problem realistically. The approval of this damnable report by the Executive Board of the American Academy of Pediatrics places us squarely in the disgraceful, unenviable, and intolerable position of being the first organized group of reputable and honorable American physicians to endorse officially a report and recommendations which are as unAmerican as the machinations of the Kremlin. This insult to ourselves, to our fellow American Physicians, to this great free nation of ours—this desecration of LIBERTY must be promptly, decisively, and completely wiped from our record or I, for one, shall resign from the Organization. Fellow member of the once American Academy of Pediatrics, we have been most disgracefully betrayed! For all of you who see the full and hideously dangerous implications of this report I suggest the following procedures: (1) Write your opinion immediately to your District Chairman, to our President, or both, demanding an immediate emergency meeting of our Executive Board to rescind its approval of the report and then pass a strong resolution of total condemnation. (2) Send a copy of your letter to me and the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons will give nation wide publicity to the tabulated results. (3) Inform your colleagues (members and non-members of the Academy) of the nature of this report, discuss it, and publicize as widely as you can its total condemnation. For those of you who may not sense the full importance of the report I append a bibliography for your further study and enlightenment. Obtain and read this material promptly, then send in your letters as soon as possible. You may receive promptly the entire bibliography (except books 7 and 8) from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, 360 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, at a cost of $1.35. For those of you who will not think or act I can do nothing except to hope your numbers are few and that your awakening will not be long delayed.

ACADEMY PROCEEDINGS—PRESIDENT'S PAGE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-77
Author(s):  
Roger L. J. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Rheumatic Fever ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
American Medicine ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Fellow Member

July 1, 1954, marks a milestone in the history of the American Academy of Pediatrics. For 22 years Doctor Hugh McCulloch has served the Academy, first as co-editor of the Journal of Pediatrics and since the establishment in 1948 of our own publication, Pediatrics, as Editor-in-Chief. Throughout his long term of office he has been an outstanding editor and in addition has found time to serve the Academy in many other ways. He was nominated by the Academy for membership on the American Board of Pediatrics and served as Chairman of the Committee on Rheumatic Fever, to mention only a few of his many activities. Few men have given as much of themselves to pediatrics and American medicine. Since he first served as a member of the Committee on Publication in 1931, Doctor McCulloch has been an inspiration to everyone who has had an opportunity to work with him. His superior qualities of executive ability and imagination have been important factors in establishing Pediatrics as an outstanding publication. Doctor McCulloch has found it necessary to ask to be relieved as Editor-in-Chief because of increasing demands on his time. It was with sincere regret and profound appreciation of Doctor McCulloch's contributions to the American Academy of Pediatrics that the Executive Board acceded to his request. It is impossible to express the magnitude of the debt that the Academy owes Doctor McCulloch for his many years of service. With the selection of Doctor Charles D. May as Editor-in-Chief, the Executive Board presents to its members a fellow member of the Academy who has a broad viewpoint of the responsibilities of the position. He is typical of the new leadership which steadily develops within the Academy and upon which we depend for even greater advances in the future.

PROCEEDINGS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-164
Author(s):  
William W. Belford
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
National Council ◽  
Unfinished Business ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
White House ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Amount Of Knowledge

AFTER SOME 30 years a member of the Academy and 6 years on the Executive Board, I come to this occasion very much aware of the great honor given me. Those before me have given us their concepts and philosophy of pediatrics and of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and what it has done. I am very humble in my comments about things as they appear to me. In the lives of all of us there is always something to be done—unfinished business. There is unfinished business for the American Academy of Pediatrics too. The last 10 years seem to have increased the number of factors and items of this unfinished business. There is so much to be done for the welfare of children! It is encouraging, though sometimes confusing, that so many groups are interested in the welfare of children besides pediatricians. It is good that the Fellows of the Academy takes part in the activities of these other organizations, for many of these lack pediatric guidance. The Academy's official liaison representatives to these groups are appreciated and we give them our thanks for their unselfish and outstanding efforts. It is evident that this phase of the work in child care will increase, and pediatricians must have an increasing role in the work of these organizations which are interested in various aspects of child health and welfare. The National Council of Organizations for Children and Youth now numbers 596 organizations as members. The recent White House Conference on Children and Youth was a huge affair! It was quite evident that there was a vast amount of knowledge unusued though known to one group but not realized or suspected to be available by others.

Prevention of Smoking

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1143-1144
Author(s):  
Henry P. Staub
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Health Hazard ◽  
American Cancer Society ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Cancer Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Younger Generation

In the Newsletter of January 1, 1968, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported that the executive board strongly endorsed time American Cancer Society's anti-smoking resolution. Personally, I cannot agree with the approach of the resolution to the public health hazard of smoking. If the American Academy of Pediatrics (or for that matter, the American Cancer Society) wanted to back effective measures, an entirely different type of resolution would have been adopted, one that would have put the emphasis On reaciling the younger generation.

THE PEDIATRICIAN AND THE PUBLIC

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1948 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-227
Author(s):  
PAUL HARPER
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Child Health ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Advisory Council ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
The Public ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Pediatric Education

The recommendations that federal tax funds be used for the support of pediatric education which were prepared by the Committee for Improvement of Child Health and approved by the Executive Board of the American Academy of Pediatrics are supported with the following reservations: a. The recommendations of the Academy should acknowledge the need to strengthen the entire field of medical education while maintaining the Academy's qualification to speak for the pediatric aspects. b. The recommendations should more clearly emphasize the desirability of extending medical training by an affiliation between outlying hospitals and medical centers. The purpose is more and better training in pediatrics for general practitioners as well as for pediatricians. c. The recommendations should be amended to strengthen the position of the proposed advisory council on medical education and to require that there shall be no interference with academic freedom to develop medical education and to investigate disease.

THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1948 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-521
Author(s):  
WM. C. BLACK
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Pediatric Care ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Personal Liberty ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Initial Shock ◽  
American Children ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Form Letter

I am in receipt of your form letter to all members of the Academy dated March 2, 1948 with the appended report of the American Academy of Pediatrics' "Committee for the Improvement of Child Health." I note with despair that this report was approved by the Academy's Executive Board, Chicago, February 8, 1948. I cannot tell you how stunned and staggered I was as I read this vicious document which has received official approval by our Executive Board. I could not believe my eyes. Now that I have recovered from the initial shock somewhat, I wish to inform you of my complete, total, uncompromising disgust with this stupid and visionary report, and the clear implication that control of Academy affairs and of the pediatric survey have fallen into the hands of persons committed to the collectivist social philosophy. No one is more desirous of the "good life" than I am. No one is more anxious than I for every child in America to have the best of pediatric care and guidance, and an ample share of all the other attributes of a full and abundant life. But only an impractical dreamer could write a report such as this or believe for one instant that adoption of any part of its recommendations could lead to anything but compulsion, coercion, bureaucracy, stateism, and despotism. The report clearly, baldly, and unequivocally cleaves to the communist social philosophy. I don't! Therefore, please be advised that through my own personal sense of responsibility to the young men and women who choose medicine as a profession, to our honored profession itself, to the American children under my care now and in the future, to the concept of the dignity and worth of the individual, to my conviction that mankind can attain its future high destiny and maintain progress in that direction only through personal liberty under law, I am compelled to proffer my resignation from the American Academy of Pediatrics to become effective immediately, when and if this disastrous report or any part thereof is adopted by the Academy.

In Reply:Office-Based Medication Dispensing

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 400-400
Author(s):  
DANIEL W. SHEA
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Expert Opinion ◽  
Consensus Building ◽  
Organizational Policy ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Hard Data ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Ambulatory Medicine ◽  
Practice Activity

The statement was developed by the Committee on Practice and Ambulatory Medicine (of which I was then chairman) with the approval and support of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Executive Board. It was designed to respond to the needs of the membership for direction and guidance in this area of practice activity. Establishing organizational policy on an issue such as this for which there are no hard data requires a consensus building process where expert opinion is solicited, competing views are evaluated, and a thoughtful position is fashioned. Our committee, at all times, sought substance, fairness, and balance in formulating the content of this statement.

Policy of the Academy on Day Care: Some Doubts I. From Indiana

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-123
Author(s):  
Robert M. Sweeney
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Executive Committee ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Policy Statement ◽  
Daycare Centers ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
General Tone

The policy statement on day care released in Pediatrics has been discussed at length by the Executive Committee of the Indiana Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. It is understood that it is necessary on the part of the American Academy of Pediatrics to make such a policy statement regarding daycare centers. One does, however, become somewhat concerned regarding the general tone and philosophy of the statement. It is felt that it mainly glosses over the fact that, for most children, child care and guidance are best given in the homes by the families.

Immunization Action Month, October 1975

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 502-503
Author(s):  
Samuel l. Katz
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Immunization Programs ◽  
The Third ◽  
School Group ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
American Children

For the third consecutive year October has been designated as Immunization Action Month (IAM). This is the effort of a coalition of governmental, professional, and private groups to highlight the need for continued attention to the immunization programs of all American children, particularly the pre-school group. The American Academy of Pediatrics since the inception of IAM has been among the leaders in its activities. Once again this year, the members of the Academy are urged to participate actively on the local scene in generating information about the goals of IAM and in implementing them. The justification for continued efforts of this sort must be found in the data on the utilization of vaccines and on the reported cases of those diseases which can be prevented.

Raising Pediatric Fees

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 1011-1013
Author(s):  
JAMES L. WILSON
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Important Influence ◽  
Good Thing ◽  
Pediatric Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Professional Teacher

This letter is written to support the idea that it would be a good thing for the children of this country if pediatricians raised their fees. This bald and mercenary-like statement can be made particularly by me without question of a selfish motive, and I make it only to emphasize certain trends in pediatric practice which I think are not to the advantage of the public or of the pediatricians. Most pediatricians work too hard and see too many patients. I assume the privilege of a confirmed professional teacher of pediatricians with a background approaching 30 years, to "point with pride" and "view with alarm" certain trends in pediatric practice. I believe we can name hardly any more important influence for the well-being of the children in this country than the modern development of the practice of pediatrics as influenced by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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