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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
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