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offered Dr. Lewis access to the medical records end the patients in both
hospitals if Dr. Lewis would agree to go in the back entrance and not
let anyone know he was allowedthese privileges.
These offers were
refused.
That night Dr. Shimizu, who had not supposedly had contact with the
patients since 2 April, made the following points to an acquaintance in
the U. S. Embassy:
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1.
Patients were afraid of ABCC doctors.
2.
Diplomats "muddy waters".
3.
Patients were seriously ill.
4.
Japanese doctors can handle the cases without help.
5.
Japanese doctors did not recelve help when they asked for it.
It is regretable that a surgeon of Prof. Shimizu's standing should
stoop to fabrication.
If one grants points 1, 3, and 4, there are still
the serious accusations of points 2 and 5.
The diplomats only entered the
medical side of tne incident when an obvious impasse had occurred.
Shimizu's points 4 and 5 seem to contradict each other.
Dr.
However, the
services requested were almost completely fulfilled except for two notable
exceptions:
1) it was impossible to give the plans and composition of
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he nuclear weapon detonated on 1 March and
2) it was impossible to supply a "miracle drug" that would
cure radiation sickness.
Aside from the services offered, if there was no "mirecle drug", were
there good reasons why the American doctors should have been permitted
to examine the patients?
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