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July 15, 1980
Gordon Stemple
Attorney at Law
9720 Wilshire Boulevard
4th Floor
Beverly Hills, California 90212
RE:
Dear Mr.
Marshall
Islands
Stemple:
At your request I
have prepared a summary of my
pinions on my visit to the Marshall Islands.
I was
ecply impressed by the kindness of the people and by.
heir gentleness and innate courtesy, and by the willings of the vice speaker and the president to spend time
h us and listen to us.
My medical background should be set out so that
these opinions may be judged.
I have practiced internal
medicine for thirty-five years.
I have been.accredited
by the Atomic Energy Commission many years ago to use
radioactive isotopes in medical practice for treatment of
certain thyroid diseases, including hyperthyroidism, and
in the diagnosis of thyroid diseeses.
I think I was one
of the first doctors to be so licensed for use of radio-
_ active isotopes in their office in Los Angeles.
There
may have been ten or fifteen others of us at the same
time.
In preparation for this licensure I studied about
six months at UCLA, taking courses in radioactive physics
and radiation in general.
I used radioisotopes for the
diagnosis and treatment of thyroid disorders up until
about five years ago, when space became crowded and the
large scanner and the devotion of a rocm in my office was
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