would care to comment on it?
Dr. Steen--Do you want to state why he did not serve?
Dr. Bernstein--As I understand it, he was unable to, physically.
Dr. Hileman read Dr. M.A. Wuerschmidt's letter dated September 30, 1952, requesting to be excused from service at County Hospital.
Dr. Bean--He did start his service, but on the advice of his physicians he requested that it be discontinued and he be excused from performing actual service. He did perform actual service until this happened.
Dr. Bernstein--Apparently to serve on the County Hospital Staff proved to be too much stress and strain for this individual.
Dr. Engle--Unless we have further proof, there does not seem to be anything to be done. I suggest we accept Dr. Bean's estimate.
Dr. Harry Thompson--The only thought that would occur to me is that I would hate to see any man barred from continuing in the Society because of illness.
Dr. Neubauer--You have this same type of thing in surgery and nothing has been done about it.
Dr. Bernstein--There is room for charity. Another point came up which requires some consideration. Shall we accept a member as a full member--which means approve of him--who is emotionally unfit to perform his duties?
Dr. Thompson--These things should go to the Board of Censors when the member comes up for term membership.
Dr. Bernstein--This is an unusual measure. This man has gone through the mechanics. If some error has been made here, perhaps it has been ours, and maybe we would be wise to forget it for now. In the future, perhaps we should get a report from the County Hospital on an individual's activities before his application is sent to the Board of Censor. This man is known to many of us personally.
Dr. Carreras--I do not see that it is up to us to deny him membership in the Society because he is physically limited in his practice. He has not done anything that would keep him from membership in any other Society except ours, because of the pledge we have. Let us say his disability is not physical, it is emotional, but you can't go ahead and punish him for that.
Dr. Bernstein--Can't we, in our County Hospital, utilize such service as he is capable of giving, without too much stress and strain?
Dr. Engle--I suggest we take Dr. Bean's estimate in this particular case and in the future let the Board of Censors contact the County Hospital and find out if every circumstance is being fulfilled. I suggest in this case we clear this man for ballot, and I so move.
Dr. Harry Thompson--I think the Censors ought to know about these things. I think there have been some "Noes" put in on several members, for real reasons, but if the Censors do not know about these things, there is nothing they can do. They are handicapped unless someone goes to them. I would be in favor of going ahead with this, but also am in favor of making our County Hospital pledge stick. It seems to me that since the Censors have cleared them, we can't take any action at all. When it comes up for vote it can be cleared accordingly. If we have something about someone, we should go to the Board of Censors with it.
Dr. Rudolph--It will be easy enough for the Censors to clear with the County Hospital.
Dr. Steen--I was going to make a motion that automatically when a letter is written to term members advising that they are coming up for permanent membership, a letter could be written at the same time to the County Hospital and a report obtained from Dr. Bean.
Dr. Neubauer--I think this brings up a problem we are overlooking entirely. We have a fair number of fellows who have never applied for County service. I had one the other day who has been practising for two years and never applied during that time. I think we ought to so amend our applications for membership to the County Society that it becomes automatic for membership in the County Society to apply for membership on the County Hospital Staff. Dr. von Dedenroth has been
