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May 12, 1923, Vol 80, No. 19 >
ARTICLE | May 12, 1923

PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS OF APPARENTLY HEALTHY PERSONS FREE

HAVEN EMERSON, M.D.
JAMA. 1923;80(19):1376-1381. doi:10.1001/jama.1923.26430460003011
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From both medical and lay sources requests have come to the American Medical Association to prepare a description of the objects to be attained, the methods to be employed and results which may be expected from inquiry into and observation of the tissues and physiologic functions of persons, young and old, who are not at the time aware of any disease or defect which is causing them to seek medical relief.

By resolution of the House of Delegates in June, 1922, the Council on Health and Public Instruction was authorized to prepare forms suitable for use by practitioners of medicine in carrying out the purposes of the periodic health examination, and the statement here submitted is offered in fulfilment of this obligation.1

The preparation of forms for record of the applicant's history and the medical examination, without explanatory text as to the intent and meaning of the questions and

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At the November, 1922, meeting of the state secretaries in Chicago, a committee was appointed by the presiding officer to act in cooperation with the committee of the Council on Health and Public Instruction in preparing the forms. A preliminary draft was submitted in January, 1923, to the committee of the state secretaries (Drs. Rock Sleyster, Milwaukee; Edgar A. Hines, Seneca, S. C.; Tom B. Throckmorton, Des Moines, Iowa; Walter F. Donaldson, Pittsburgh, and Olin West, Chicago). After correspondence with leading clinicians in their respective states, the committee met with the Council on Health and Public Instruction, March 6, 1923, in Chicago, and numerous changes in the text were decided on. The consensus of the two committees is represented in the forms and text herewith submitted.
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Army M. Bull. 7, (Nov. 15) , 1922;, pp. 210-221.

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At the November, 1922, meeting of the state secretaries in Chicago, a committee was appointed by the presiding officer to act in cooperation with the committee of the Council on Health and Public Instruction in preparing the forms. A preliminary draft was submitted in January, 1923, to the committee of the state secretaries (Drs. Rock Sleyster, Milwaukee; Edgar A. Hines, Seneca, S. C.; Tom B. Throckmorton, Des Moines, Iowa; Walter F. Donaldson, Pittsburgh, and Olin West, Chicago). After correspondence with leading clinicians in their respective states, the committee met with the Council on Health and Public Instruction, March 6, 1923, in Chicago, and numerous changes in the text were decided on. The consensus of the two committees is represented in the forms and text herewith submitted.
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Army M. Bull. 7, (Nov. 15) , 1922;, pp. 210-221.

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