Letters: Aug. 29, 1969

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Sir: Finally an article on the medical profession telling it like it is. I can guarantee that Dr. Polansky [Aug. 15] and thousands of other M.D.s worked 78 hours a week long before Medicaid, many of those hours without any fee at all.

The American people might find it interesting that in 1968, approximately 10,000 interns worked 90-hour weeks for $80 a week. I wonder when the Senate Finance Committee will investigate that.

LAWRENCE M. PERTCHECK, M.D. Cleveland