REUBEN MERLISS, M.D. aA RID AL CORPO CAI Om Mt 165 nwOR sw San VICENTE @LVO GEVERLYT SILLS. Cansf Canta Cwatt FELL Ow auemiCam OCCUPATIONAL me OICalL AS bOC ATION COOE #cet) 637-0430 tame COOL 2131 zie awe Cam ACaMed © tN a me OTC INE Attachment #2 403081 July 15, 1980 Gordon Stemple Attorney at Law 9720 Wilshire Boulevard éth Floor Beverly Hillis, California 90212 RE: Dear fr. @ershall Islands Stemple: At your recuest I heve prepared a summary of my opinions cn my visit to the Marsnall Islands. I was Geeply impressed by the kindness of the people and by thelr gentleness and innate courtesy, and by the willingness of the vice speaker and the president to spend time with us and listen to us. My medical background should be set out so that these opinions may be jucéged. I heve practiced internal medicine for thirty-five years. I have been eccredited by the Atomic Energy Commission many years ago to use redicactive isotopes in medical préctice for treatment of certain thyroid diseases, including hyperthvroidism, and in the diagnosis of thyroid diseases. I think I was cne of the first doctors to be so licensed for use of radioactive isotopes in their office in Los angeles. There may have been ten or fifteen others of us at the same time. In preparaticn 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 cevotion of a rocm in my office was BEST COPY AVAILABLE