RT Journal
A1 Shepardson FW
T1 "A registration fee for physicians"
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD February 1
VO 72
IS 5
SP 366
OP 366
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610050048022
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610050048022
AB To the Editor: 
    —Dr. Blair Kelly's protest (The Journal, Jan. 25, 1918, p. 298) against the proposition of an annual registration fee for physicians ascribes to me an attitude which is far removed from my thought. One of the responsibilities placed on the director of registration and education in Illinois is the enforcement of the medical practice act. This act represents the cumulative effort of years of work by members of the medical profession. It is an excellent law and is much in advance of any previous similar statute of Illinois. The civil administrative code, which established the department of registration and education, provides that in all professional matters relating to medicine the officers of the department shall be advised by a committee of five physicians, men who are licensed to practice medicine and surgery in all their branches. Under the law no one can be admitted to practice medicine