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July 15, 1980
Gordon Stemple
Attorney at Law
9720 Wilshire Boulevard
4th Floor
Beverly Hills, California 90212
RE:
Deer Mr.
Marshall
At vour request
«
Islands
Stemple:
I
have prepared a summary of my
pinions on mv visit to the Marshall
Islands.
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I was
cply impressed by the kindness of the people and by
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and Innate courtesy, and by the willingfice speaker and the president to spend time
My medical background should be set out so that
these opinions may be judged.
I have practiced internal
medicine for thirty-five years.
by
the
Atcmic
Energy
I have been accredited
Commission many
years
ago
to
use
radioactive isotepes in medical practice for tYeatment of
cértain thyroid diseases, including hyperthyroidism, and
in the diagnosis of thyroid diseeses.
I think I was one
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
Six months
teking ccurses
time.
In preparation for this licensure I
at UCLA,
studied about |
in redioactive 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
lerge scanner and the devotion of a rocm in my office was
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