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Lett Unattended JT.IExamutrr-Pag 1 5 tor June 21, 1972 Profiles of Some Average Doctors Eye Care for GIs Blasted vest, he should go to a good broker or banker. However, I always told myself that the day I became more interested in the stock market reports than my patients, I would quit medicine." Cleaner Air The psychiatrist, who has retired to the Bay Area because the climate is better for his wife's lungs, did not want his name used. Another doctor who did not want his name used ac-knowledged there "are many things wrong with the AMA, although I don't quite think it earns Hi nickname ii v' By Almena Loinux The average doctor attending the American Medical Aiuociation convention in Civic Auditorium is average among his peers In only one respect his professionalism. Otherwise, he comes in ail sizes, shapes, hair lengths, colors although there are fewer than a half dozen Negroes attending and a variety of ethnic backgrounds. There is, for instance, a notable number of physicians of Asian background, such as husband and wife anesthesiologists, Dr.

Pan-ka V. Master and Dr. Asha P. Master, East Indians from Canada, bound for Dubuque, Iowa, where they will Vietnam from October 10C9 to October 1970. One of a dozen eye doctors there during a high point of U.S.

involvement, he showed color slides of war ravaged eyes. There were many gasps in the audience of military and civilian doctors. He said eye injuries constituted from 6 to 9 percent of all war wounds. Mines and booby traps were largely responsible. LaPiana counseled the doctors that if all else failed, an ordinary paper clip could be used successfully as a retractor to lift the upper eyelid.

Music Twitches "You've got to get it out of the way," he said. "You've got to overcome that twitch to examine the eye." he rec-ommeiled giving an anesthetic first. "Anything in front of the eyes is better than nothing at all" in a combat situation, he said, including eye glasses which will shatter and possibly penetrate the eye. The Ophthalmologyist Is after the Army to adopt what he terms "eye armor" for combat soldiers highly scratch and impact-resistant plastic devices which resemble wrap-around sun glasses. But infantrymen, the doctor lamented, resist wearing protective devices times even helmets.

They look on them as diminishing their manhood, LaPiana said. Norman Melnick practice. Dr. Asha who has just completed her An Army ophthalmologist says doctors in Vietnam "sometimes fail to provide even rudimentary eye care" to wounded American servicemen. The fault is not neglect.

"It's that we opthalmolo-gists have done our job so well that other doctors are convinced that the eye is an extraordinarily delicate organ never to be touched or even inspected," said Lt. Col. Francis G. LaPiana of Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington. The young eye doctor, who-spoke to a session on mili-medicine at the American Medical Association's convention here yesterday, said some war shattered eyes were left unattended for as long as 48 hours.

Medics Scared He recalled one case a big chunk of shrapnel lodged in a soldier's eye that was not removed for several days because doctors at the field hospital "were afraid they could not do it safely." He said the policy in Vietnam was to "patch and ship." LaPiana, a career Army doctor, said the problem of inaction by nonoph-thalmologists was happening not only in Vietnam but across the United States. He pleaded with the doctors in the audience to develop pri ing muscle in the lid in order residency at Wisconsin University, adds an exottc touch to the convention with her Indian sari and the purple mark of high-cast Hindu on her forehead. SIX YEAR OLD SON TOKRU fellow listen in on a machine DR. YOSHO SHIMADA AND HER General practitioner and the little the American Murderers Association." American doctors, like American business generally, he feel, do not give "an honest dollar's service for a dollar. This is so all over the world today, but this is particularly true of America." He thinks the times call for the country to get back to the "Puritan ethic" of th founding fathers.

Young, mod clad Dr. Zealous Wiley, who is doing his residency In internal medicine at Mr. Zion Hospital, could have "talked all day" about the reasons why there are so few Negro phy From Singapore Dr. M. Ambiavagor, 3(5, Is a Singaporean.

He heads an intensive care unit at the Einstein Medical Center at in (the Yeshiva University Bronx babies, two years and eight months old. His turn to attend sessions came today. This month, the family will leave for the father's residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Afterwards they will return to work in Tokyo where they received their university and medical training. Aside from the professional discipline, which adds its sheen even to their sharp wit, the doctors at the convention are characterized most by the region they come from like most Americans.

Things like Income, tax shelters, longevity and length of practice reflect where a doctor practices, even more than his personal drive. Where he lives even affects lus drive, most agree. "A goodly share of doctors, 1 think, don't make en-enough to worry about tax shelters." said a lean Salt Lake City general practitioner, Dr. F. Willis Tyler, CUSTOM SALE Diminutive Dr.

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Good Business But in Salt Lake City, Dr. Taylor acknowledges, "There is more to do than a doctor gets done." Translated, that means business is good. A retired Beverly Hills psychiatrist and former pro-f ess or of psychiatry at UCLA knows you can get rich practicing medicine, and thinks conditions in the country, such as inflation, are causing practitioners to seek tax shelters. But he doesn't think doctors should get involved in business because "if anyone goes into medicine without realizing he is going to spend the rest of his life studying, he's a fool. "If he has money to in- mary eye care skills.

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