RT Journal
A1 Vargas F
T1 MUtual recognition of medical degrees in north and south america
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD May 3
VO 72
IS 18
SP 1317
OP 1318
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610180055023
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610180055023
AB (Translation)To the Editor: 
    —I have received the third number of the Spanish Edition of The Journal, and I have been most favorably impressed with its contents. It furnishes a most complete review of medical science, and gives a clear insight into the fraternal spirit which pervades the medical profession throughout the world. The world-wide scope of your publication gives it a position of advantage over local journals, especially over those whose main purpose seems to be the advertising of certain products.Could you not inaugurate a movement which would include South America, Central America and North America, with the object of bringing about mutual recognition of medical degrees in all North and South American countries? The time has come when the reasons which may have existed in the past for national control of medical degrees no longer obtain, in view of the restricted privileges to which the holder of