-1o- Steps have been taken to make available to the Trust Territory $16,000 from the AEC to provide inconvenience payment to the people of Utirik. However, it is our understanding that the procedure for the disposition of these funds has not been decided. A Misconception of Medical Responsibility Dr. Conard has suggested that the Marshallese the idea that the objectives and professional have probably never accepted responsibilities of the Medical Survey team are quite different from those of the Health Department Territories . of the Trust The Mediccl Survey teams have the objective of evaluating the health status of those exposed to fallout radiations and certain others who serve as a control population. In order to accomplish the survey on an island or atoll, it was found useful for reasons of good public relations to set up a “sickcall,” i.e., outpatient clinics, for the people in general. with the kno-t:ledgeand active cooperation of the Health Department This is done of the Trust Territories . The physicians in the Health Department on the other hand are responsible for the day-to-day general medical care of about 100,000 people who live in small groups on islands or atolls scattered over an area of the Pacific equal to that of the United States. Considering the logistic problems and the dearth of physicians willing to practice under these conditions, performs” its duties vet-y creditably. the Health Department Tl~e Sul-vey Team is concerned only with diagnosis and evaluation unless a very serious condition is found or an acute disease is develo~]in[:. Definitive trcatnwn~ is kept at a minimum by the Survey Team since that is properly the responsibility Medical Department of the Trust Territories. of the attending physicians of the