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Amoco-Gas guarantees you more gas per gallon AMERICAN OIL COMPANY REFRESH...RELAX That real Great Taste puts you at your sparkling best of Coke N OF GOOD TASTE (IMF BOOTH views THE BULLETIN. August S : 1955—?AGE 7-i By Jim Kelly (N.C.W.C. News Service) SAN FRANCISCO — Catholic Action found its way into the convention of the American Medical Association here. “What was it you wanted to know, Doctor? The morality of the rhythm method? How do Catholics feel about euthanasia? Should cancer patients be told?” These and other questions, dealing with the ethics of med icine, received an answer, or a recommendation as to where one could be found, at, a booth sponsored and staffed by mem bers of the Federation of Cath olic Physicians’ Guild. In five days visitors to the booth filled out some 1,000 cards requesting documented informa tion about the Catholic teaching on problems of medical and surgical practice. Thousands of queries were answered on the spot. Though small, and tucked away in a corner of the vast ar ray of technical exhibits in un derground Brooks hall, Booth E-33 got the attention of near ly every passerby. Most stopped to figure the pamphlets and check the list of topics (contraception, steriliza tion, artificial insemination, sterility, bobotomy, vasectomy). Every third or fourth person wanted more than a look. “The most frequent question might surprise you,” Dr. Gerarl Griffin, of New York, said. “There is great professional in terest in the moral side of deal ing with cancer patients — whether terminal patients should be told of their medically hopeless condition.” The advice: Yes, unless a doctor has good reason to be lieve his patient is susceptible to immediate, perhaps fatal, physical shock. Other popular queries: How do Catholics feel about sex education? Will you explain the rhythm method so that I can advise my Catholic patients? Some 20 Catholic physicians here for the convention, none from this area for the guild is not organized here, volunteered to man the booth during the week. It meant a sacrifice. Sev eral missed professional sessions they would like to have attend ed. But the response has been great — better than at New York and Chicago conventions,” said Dr. Clement P. Cunning ham of Rock Island, 111. “Peo ple are grateful for the infor mation, so we can assume we’re accomplishing some good.” Dr. Bert J. Hoeflich, of Eu gene, Ore., backed him up. “No body’s approached us with a chip on his shoulder. If they stop to talk, the interest is us ually serious.” Catholic doctors were often surprised to learn such an or ganization as the guild exists. Their colleagues in the booth re plied with a sales pitch, and be lieve they may have spurred formation of new guilds to add to the 73, with 5,000 members, already operating in various parts of the country. From the questions asked by non-Catholic M.D.’s, one impres sion lingered. “All made it clear they want ed to be conscientious about not giving their Catholic patients medical advice that might vio late the teachings of the Church,” Dr. Griffin declared. “We try to get across the idea that good medicine is good eth ics. I believe we’re succeeding, because thinking in the AMA, and articles in the AMA Jour nal, are beginning to reflect the fact that physicians recognize there are God-giving moral prin ciples which guide medical practice.” Available at the booth was a selection of medico - moral works, among them Father Ger ald Kelly’s “Medico-M oral Problems” and “Marriage: “A Medical and Sacramental Stu dy,” by Father Alan Keenan, O.F.M., and John Ryan, M.D. Many visitors placed orders for the books. Pamphlets included one about the aims of the Federation of Catholic Physicians’ Guilds. Its primary objective: “To bring spiritual counsel and moral guidance to the physician so that he may be a more deeply religious man and a better Catholic in his daily practice of medicine.” The Federation, sponsoring a booth for the third straight year at the AMA Convention, is headquartered at 1438 S. Grand Boulevard, St. Louis, 4, Mo. President is Dr. William J. Egan of Brookline, Mass., who was among the 20 volunteer staffers here. (Photograph hy Dorickson Studio) THIS PUMP OXYGENATOR, at St. Joseph's Atlanta takes the place of heart and lungs during open heart surgery. KWIK SHOP Open Seven Days a Week — 8:30 a. m.-ll p. m. PO. 7-2107 1135 Main Street Forest Park, Ga. S. D. Dorsey, Owner and Manager STEAGAR’S DRUG STORE YOUR HEADQUARTERS FOR FINE SUNDRIES AND DRUGS — PRESCRIPTIONS 804 Cascade Ave., S. W. PL. 3-6112 Atlanta, Ga. CERNIGLIA PRODUCE CO. ATLANTA'S FINE PRODUCE, WHOLESALE 1050 Murphy Ave. PL. 3-518G Atlanta, Ga. BROOKS GARAGE EXPERT MECHANICS AND GUARANTEED WORK DR. 3-2747 46 Ponce de Leon Ave. Decatur, Ga. BANK OF FOREST PARK Says Gear Hospital— (Continued From Page 1-B) sirable. “However, it is the responsi bility of all who are engaged in the health field to guard against unnecessary utilization of hos pital facilities. It can only lead to an impairment of the quality of medical care and hospital service, produce unnecessary costs and provide a serious threat to the continued exist ence of the voluntary health movement,” he said. In another session at the con vention, Dr. John R. Cavanagh, a Washington, D. C., psychia trist, warned that hypnosis is “not a parlor toy, (but) a thera peutic instrument which, if not properly used, has physical, physiological, psychological and moral dangers.” Dr. Cavanagh, past president of the guild of Catholic Phy- chiatrists, a national organiza tion, spoke to a session of the 22nd annual meeting of the Hos- p i t a 1 Chaplains’ Conference which met in conjunction with the hospital association. Speaking on “Hypnosis: Uses, Implications and Problems,” Dr. Cavanagh said: “Hypnosis should be employ ed only for a serious purpose by one skilled in its use. Skill in its use should be understood to in clude an awareness of its dan gers. With the possible excep tion as an anaesthetic agent in dentistry, its uses should be re stricted to members of the med ical profession. “On the part of the subject, care must be taken that when he submits to hypnotic proced ures, he is assured of the com petence and honesty of the hyp notist.” Dr. Cavanagh’s speech touch ed upon the question of whether a hypnotized subject can be made to carry out immoral acts. He said that it has generally been taught that “any sugges tion which is repugant to the subject’s conscience will be re jected point blank.” “Lately, however,” he added, “experiments seem to demon strate that the subject may be induced to perform immoral acts.” A powerful hypnotist can cause such behavior by present ing immoral suggestions “under the guise that they are morally ly acceptable.” He said, too, it must be noted that even though most subjects will resist an immoral act, they may not be able to resist ac tions which are done to them while they are in the trance. 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