TY  - JOUR
T1  - FReedom for the professions
AU  - McCann WS
Y1  - 1959/01/24
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1959.03000210104020
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 410
EP  - 410
VL  - 169
IS  - 4
N2  - To the Editor:— 
    On June 14, 1958, Rear Adm. H. G. Rickover gave an address to the graduating class of the Stevens Institute of Technology in which he paid some very handsome compliments to the professional principles under which the American Medical Association operates. In particular, he noted the advantages of a fee for service, in preference to salary, in compensation of professional personnel. He pointed out that this is one of the strong methods of resisting the lay control of professional acts by administrators. In general, he is advising those who would make a full-fledged profession of engineering to follow the medical example.Some weeks ago the Manchester Guardian called attention to the fact that physicians were leaving East Germany in large numbers, because the East German government had denied their children the right to be admitted to the universities, since they were not members of the working classes.
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1959.03000210104020
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1959.03000210104020
ER  -