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William C. Scott, MD

JAMA. 1971;217(8):1097-1098.

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The House of Delegates of the American Medical Association in Portland, Ore, in December 1963 adopted a position statement on blood banks which emphasized the fact that the procurement of human blood and its transfusion required the direction and supervision of a physician. The American Medical Association Committee on Blood amplified this statement by specifically stating that the overall director of a blood bank should be a doctor of medicine. This committee, now expanded to the Committee on Transfusion and Transplantation, has continued to be interested in the doctor who directs the blood bank. Therefore we welcome the article in this issue of the THE JOURNAL (p 1085), "Survey of Blood Bank Physicians and Medical Directors," by the distinguished group of authors headed by John A. Shivley, MD.

This is the first opportunity to study the training of the physicians who are now directing blood banks. It comes as no . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Chairman AMA Committee on Transfusion and Transplantation

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