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A. M. A. AND A. PH. A. Discuss More Complete Utilization of Services Pharmacists can Render
A. M. A. AND A. PH. A. DISCUSS
MORE COMPLETE UTILIZATION OF CLEVELAND CONFERENCE, FIRST IN THE HISTORY OF EITHER ASSOCIATION, HERALDS A NEW ERA OF COOPERATION BETWEEN MEDICINE AND PHARMACY
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OR the first time in their respective histories, the Amencan Medical Association and the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION met in joint conference at the Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio, April 6th, to discuss their mutual problems and to set the stage for more active cooperation between pharmacists and physicians in utilizing to the fullest extent the services and facilities of both professions. Approximately 200 leaders of the two professions attended this dramatic conference, called by the A. M. A. following meetings of its Board of Trustees with a special committee of the A. PH. A. The prime purpose of the joint conference was to give the A. PH. A. an opportunity to tell, and the A. M. A. to hear, the story of how pharmacy has "come of age" during the past quarter of a century in respect to increasing its educational standards and, thereby, the quality and quantity of the services which pharmacists are prepared to render physicians and the public. Spokesmen for the profession of pharmacy traced the development of the present educational program in pharmacy and analyzed the trends in pharmaceutical practice which indicate that pharmacists are prepared to render greater professional serv· ices than they are being called upon to perform to-day. They revealed that a very considerable portion of the pharmacist's time at present is devoted to professional duties and urged that the capacity of pharmacy to undertake additional responsibilities in public health work and in supplying the profession of medicine with increased services be utilized to the fullest extent possible. Formal addresses were delivered before the conference by Dr. Howard Dittrick, Editor of the Bulletin of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine and Director of the Museum of the Cleveland Medical Library Association; Dr. E . F. Kelly, Secretary of
the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION; Dr. Robert C. Wilson, Dean of the School of Pharmacy of the University of Georgia; and Dr. Morris Fishbein, Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Associati11n. Their addresses were discussed by P. H. Costello, Secretary of the North Dakota Board of Pharmacy, Cooperstown, N. Dak. ; Charles H. Rogers, Dean of the School of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota; Carson P. Frailey, Secretary of the American Drug Manufacturers Association, Washington, D. C.; E. Fullerton Cook, Chairman of the U. S. P. Revision Committee, Philadelphia; Wortley F. Rudd, Dean of the School of Pharmacy, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond; A. G. DuMez, Dean of the School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore ; Robert L. Swain, Editor of Drug Topics, New York City; Max Lemberger, President of the American College of Apothecaries, Milwaukee; Dr. Theodore J. Klumpp, President of the Winthrop Chemical Company and formar Secretary of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the A. M. A.; Dr. A. H. Bunce, of Atlanta, Ga. ; Robert P . Fischelis, Chairman of the Council of the A. PH. A., and others. Dr. Torald Sollman, Dean of the School of Medicine of Western Reserve University, presided at the afternoon session, and Dr. B. V. Christensen, Dean of the School of Pharmacy of Ohio State University and President of the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION, presided at the evening session.
EVOLUTION OF THE APOTHECARY Dr. Howard Dittrick painted the back!n"ound for the discussions with a comprehensive pal>Cf on the evolution of the apothecary. He told of the common origin of medicine and pharmacy in
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SERVICES PHARMACISTS CAN RENDER the groping of primitive man to find relief for illness and pain, and traced the development of the art of healing down through the ages. In great detail, Dr. Dittrick recalled the efforts of pharmacists and physicians to solve their mutual problems and although split apart at times by differences which arose, the two professions, joined by their devotion to the common cause of
healing the sick, have always realized their interdependence and have sought to work together in harmony. The papers of Dr. Kelly and Dr. Wilson and a summary 'of Dr. Fishbein's address are published on the following pages of this issue of the JouRNAL. They merit the thoughtful consideration of all physicians and pharmacists.
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MORE COMPLETE UTILIZATION OF CLEVELAND CONFERENCE, FIRST IN THE HISTORY OF EITHER ASSOCIATION, HERALDS A NEW ERA OF COOPERATION BETWEEN MEDICINE AND PHARMACY
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OR the first time in their respective histories, the Amencan Medical Association and the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION met in joint conference at the Hotel Statler, Cleveland, Ohio, April 6th, to discuss their mutual problems and to set the stage for more active cooperation between pharmacists and physicians in utilizing to the fullest extent the services and facilities of both professions. Approximately 200 leaders of the two professions attended this dramatic conference, called by the A. M. A. following meetings of its Board of Trustees with a special committee of the A. PH. A. The prime purpose of the joint conference was to give the A. PH. A. an opportunity to tell, and the A. M. A. to hear, the story of how pharmacy has "come of age" during the past quarter of a century in respect to increasing its educational standards and, thereby, the quality and quantity of the services which pharmacists are prepared to render physicians and the public. Spokesmen for the profession of pharmacy traced the development of the present educational program in pharmacy and analyzed the trends in pharmaceutical practice which indicate that pharmacists are prepared to render greater professional serv· ices than they are being called upon to perform to-day. They revealed that a very considerable portion of the pharmacist's time at present is devoted to professional duties and urged that the capacity of pharmacy to undertake additional responsibilities in public health work and in supplying the profession of medicine with increased services be utilized to the fullest extent possible. Formal addresses were delivered before the conference by Dr. Howard Dittrick, Editor of the Bulletin of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine and Director of the Museum of the Cleveland Medical Library Association; Dr. E . F. Kelly, Secretary of
the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION; Dr. Robert C. Wilson, Dean of the School of Pharmacy of the University of Georgia; and Dr. Morris Fishbein, Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Associati11n. Their addresses were discussed by P. H. Costello, Secretary of the North Dakota Board of Pharmacy, Cooperstown, N. Dak. ; Charles H. Rogers, Dean of the School of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota; Carson P. Frailey, Secretary of the American Drug Manufacturers Association, Washington, D. C.; E. Fullerton Cook, Chairman of the U. S. P. Revision Committee, Philadelphia; Wortley F. Rudd, Dean of the School of Pharmacy, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond; A. G. DuMez, Dean of the School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore ; Robert L. Swain, Editor of Drug Topics, New York City; Max Lemberger, President of the American College of Apothecaries, Milwaukee; Dr. Theodore J. Klumpp, President of the Winthrop Chemical Company and formar Secretary of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the A. M. A.; Dr. A. H. Bunce, of Atlanta, Ga. ; Robert P . Fischelis, Chairman of the Council of the A. PH. A., and others. Dr. Torald Sollman, Dean of the School of Medicine of Western Reserve University, presided at the afternoon session, and Dr. B. V. Christensen, Dean of the School of Pharmacy of Ohio State University and President of the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION, presided at the evening session.
EVOLUTION OF THE APOTHECARY Dr. Howard Dittrick painted the back!n"ound for the discussions with a comprehensive pal>Cf on the evolution of the apothecary. He told of the common origin of medicine and pharmacy in
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SERVICES PHARMACISTS CAN RENDER the groping of primitive man to find relief for illness and pain, and traced the development of the art of healing down through the ages. In great detail, Dr. Dittrick recalled the efforts of pharmacists and physicians to solve their mutual problems and although split apart at times by differences which arose, the two professions, joined by their devotion to the common cause of
healing the sick, have always realized their interdependence and have sought to work together in harmony. The papers of Dr. Kelly and Dr. Wilson and a summary 'of Dr. Fishbein's address are published on the following pages of this issue of the JouRNAL. They merit the thoughtful consideration of all physicians and pharmacists.
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