BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
July 9, 1953
Meeting called to Order at 8: P.M. by the President, W.R. Manning.
Members present were:
W.R. Manning, President Francis J. Bean
W.B. Steen, Secretary-Treasurer M.A. Carreras
Edward M. Hayden Leo J. Kent
Harry E. Thompson Clarence H. Kuhlman
Lindsay E. Beaton Walter E. Hileman
Dr. Milton Semoff was present by invitation.
It was moved by Dr. Lindsay E. Beaton to dispense with reading of the Minutes. Motion seconded by Dr. Carreras and carried.
Dr. Semoff was present on invitation because of his letter of 18 June, 1953, written in his capacity as Chairman of the Committee for Standardization of Medical Policy, Care of Poliomyelitis Patients, which recommended that:
1. The Medical Advisory Board for the Pima County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis should replace the Committee for Standardization of Medical Policy and Care of Poliomyelitis Patients and function primarily as a committee of the Pima County Medical Society,
2. The members of this committee should be appointed yearly by the President of the Pima County Medical Society,
3. The committee should be composed of one representative from each specialty, viz., Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Orthopedics, ENT, Anaesthesia, Public Health, Hospital Administration, and Neurology.
Dr. Semoff stated that the whole purpose of this letter is to try to get around the confusion and blood letting which has existed during the past five years or so. Basically, he said, this has been due to one thing--that the Advisory Committee for the Polio Foundation has operated as an independent satellite, and actually one man who has laid down whatever rules he felt like, which has caused resentment. Dr. Semoff said that his committee had turned in its report covering what should be done in acute poliomyelitis, etc., a standardization of treatment to avoid confusion, only to receive a reply from the Advisory Committee saying "we approve everything because it is taken bodily from the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis recommendations." No one, Dr. Semoff said, had ever seen such recommendations, and felt it would have saved his committee a lot of work if they had known of it. He stated that he had talked to all the orthopedic men, internists and pediatricians, and the question seems to be 'why should be Advisory Committee operate independently since it is the medical men who are asked to be on the Advisory Board?' 'Why can't the committee be appointed directly through the Medical Society, instead of being a law unto itself?'
Discussion:
Dr. Manning remarked that committees for this year are already appointed and functioning.
Dr. Semoff suggested that recommendation of the future should be made to the Foundation, and has to come from the top level. Apparently, he said,
