Unqualified Doctors Performing Cosmetic Surgery: Policies and Enforcement Activities of the Federal Trade Commission : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Energy of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, Part 1

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Page 226 - We do not doubt the authority of the State to estimate the baleful effects of such methods and to put a stop to them. The legislation was not dealing with traders in commodities, but with the vital interest of public health, and with a profession treating bodily ills and demanding different standards of conduct from those which are traditional in the competition of the market place.
Page 226 - ... concerned with the maintenance of professional standards which will insure not only competency in individual practitioners, but protection against those who would prey upon a public peculiarly susceptible to imposition through alluring promises of physical relief. And the community is concerned in providing safeguards not only against deception, but against practices which would tend to demoralize the profession by forcing its members into an unseemly rivalry which would enlarge the opportunities...
Page 29 - The legislature was not dealing with traders in commodities, but with the vital interest of public health, and with a profession treating bodily ills and demanding different standards of conduct from those which are traditional in the competition of the market place. The community is concerned with the maintenance of professional standards which will insure not only competency in individual practitioners, but protection against those who would prey upon a public peculiarly susceptible to imposition...
Page 242 - Unprofessional conduct shall include but is not limited to the violating or attempting to violate, directly or indirectly, or assisting in or abetting the violation of or conspiring to violate any provision or term of this chapter or of the laws governing pharmacy, or of regulations established by the board.
Page 20 - Association, the American Medical Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Council of Medical Specialty Societies.
Page 257 - ... proof of loss, or other book, paper, or writing, with intent to present or use the same, or to allow it to be presented or used in support of any such claim, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding three years, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both.
Page 443 - March 1961, to establish a national accreditation program. The ANHA recognized the limitations of its own program and consistently sought additional sponsors. Meanwhile, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, which is sponsored by the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, the American College of Physicians, and the American College of Surgeons, was also considering the establishment of an accreditation program for inpatient care institutions other than hospitals....
Page 187 - American Board of Medical Specialties; • American Hospital Association; • American Medical Association; • Association of American Medical Colleges; and • Council of Medical Specialty Societies.
Page 85 - We will make a copy of your prepared remarks a part of the record in their entirety, and if you could summarize your principal concerns, that would be very helpful.
Page 92 - Every monopoly and all exclusive privileges are granted at the expense of the public, which ought to receive a fair equivalent. The many millions which this act proposes to bestow on the stockholders of the existing bank must come directly or indirectly out of the earnings of the American people.

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