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July 15, 1980
Gordon Stemple
<torney at Law
9720 Wilshire Boulevard
th Floor
Beverly Hillis, California $0212
RE:
Dear Mr.
‘Warshall
Islands
Stemple:
At your request I have prepared a summary of my
opinions en mv visit to the Marshall Islands.
I was
deeply impressed by the kindness of the people and by
their 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
<
these
medical beckground should be set out so that
opinions may be jucgec.
I have practiced internal
medicine for thirty-five years.
I have been eccredited
by the Atomic Energy Commission many yeérs ago to use
redicactive
isotopes
in medical prectice
for treatment of
certain thyroid diseases, including hyperthyroidism, and
in the diagnosis of thyroid diseases.
I think I was one
of the first doctors to be so licensed for use of réedioactive 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.
1 used radiocisotonres for the
Giagnosis and treatment of thyroid disorders up until
about five years ago, when space became crowded and the
large scanner and the cevoticn of a rocm in my office was