CUBAN PHYSICIANS REVOLT

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Newspapers recently announced that the physicians of Cuba employed by the mutual aid societies had revolted against the terms of their employment and that at the request of the president of Cuba they had agreed to postpone their strike for seventy-two hours. The president is studying the dispute, which is precipitated by a refusal of the societies to drop from their membership lists all persons financially able to pay regular fees for medical attendance. The situation thus precipitated in Cuba was called to the attention of the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association in 1927 by Dr. J. M. Penichet, professor of ophthalmology in the University of Havana. The conditions of medical practice in Cuba are unusual. The population is slightly over 3,000,000 and there are about 3,000 physicians practicing in the island. This would seem to indicate approximately 1,000 available patients for each physician, whereas actually such

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