Dr. Milford O. Rouse, President of the American Medical Association, in the March 4, 1968, JAMA (203:881) reminds every physician that his future as an individual physician, and the future of the private practice of medicine as a profession depends upon all of us as members of the medical profession positively exhibiting our public concern for problems that exist throughout the society in which today we are a leading part, but tomorrow we could find ourselves nothing more than salaried technologists. As physicians we will lose our freedom to practice as we see fit, to prescribe the drugs we think best, and to deliver to each patient the medical care that is most satisfactory to us and to him, if controls, restrictions, and schedules are imposed by persons outside of organized medicine.
It is the obligation of every physician to work toward seeing that medical care is available to everyone,