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Eisenhower: “No profession--whether it be medical or legal or teaching, or any other--is merely a learned society of scholars, living…”

On the recordOctober 13, 1957
No profession--whether it be medical or legal or teaching, or any other--is merely a learned society of scholars, living within its own boundaries and rules, like a medieval fraternity.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Message to the Atlantic City Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

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