' . REUBEN MERLISS, M.D. & MIRiD a, CORPCEA* ION 163 ~CR7m San VICENTE BLVD. BEVERLY wiLLS. CaLiF Canta Dt... Cwatt auege Tam wcaaDn <1” Ge etl anal, mt Orc ie CODE . St211 FELL Ow SMLECem 637-0430 saMCa CODE 213) Attachment #2 July 15, 1980 Gordon Stemple Attorney at Law 9720 Wilshire Boulevard 4th Floor Beverly Hills, California 90212 RE: Dear fr. “arshall OCC uPatiCmar ME OiCaL association Islands Stemple: At your request I have prepared a summary of my opinions cn my visit to the Marshall Islands. I was Geeply impressed by the kindness of the people and by their gentleness and innate courtesy, and by the willir-~ness of the vice speaker and the president to spend tine with us and listen to us. My medical background should be set out so that | these opinions may be juégec. I have practiced internal medicine for thirty-five years. I have been eccredited by the Atomic Energy Commission many years ago to use radicactive isotopes in medical practice 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 radioisotones 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 room in my office was