RT Journal
T1 PUblic health and the government
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2009
FD February 25
VO 301
IS 8
SP 890
OP 890
DO 10.1001/jama.2009.125
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.125
AB 
It is a singularly felicitous coincidence that the last address given by the President-elect as a private citizen should have been delivered on Washington's birthday, at the University of Pennsylvania, on the subject of “The Present Relations of the Learned Professions to Political Government.” No occasion could be more appropriate for such an address than the birthday anniversary of our first President, nor any place more suitable than the seat of the first American university, organized in 1765, which granted, in 1768, the first medical diploma issued in America. The recognition of the obligations which members of the learned professions owe to the government and the emphasis of the political duties of the educated classes are most opportune. Mr. Taft's address can be accepted as a forecast of the character of his coming administration.