Foreign Doctors Numerous on Hospital Staffs Many Hurt As Lisbpn Troops
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
The Daily Register VOL. 98 N0.31 SHREWSBURY, N. J. • MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1975 15 CENTS Foreign doctors numerous on hospital staffs By LINDA ELLIS Forty-seven per cent of the Is there reason to view with Delegates from five medic- Medicine and Dentistry of (First el a series) residents at Monmouth Me- alarm when a large number al groups met in Memphis in New Jersey, said foreign dical Center In Long Branch, of physicians In a county and May to discuss the FMS grad- school graduates are more Foreign medical school are foreign medical school a state are foreign-educated? uate situation. The delegates, likely to locate in metropoli- graduates make up one third graduates. Many physicians think so. representing the American tan areas than their Ameri- of the staffs of Monmouth The nationwide norm is 33 Hospital administrators are Medical Association, the As- can counterparts and that County's two newest hospi- per cent. divided on the issue. sociation of American Medic- some areas of the United tals. Approximately 26 per cent Spokesmen for New Jer- al Colleges, the Advisory States, "apparently unattrac- At Freehold Area Hospital, of the Garden State's licensed sey's College of Medicine and Board for Medical Specialty tive to American graduates," 30 per cent of the attending physicians are FMS gradu- Dentistry (CMDNJ) see It as and the Council of Medical are becoming more and more physicians are foreign medic- ates. enough of a problem that the Specialty Societies, made a dependent upon the FMS al graduates. Only New York, Rhode Is- school has a thriving program general statement following graduates as practicing pri- Bayshore Community Hos- land and Delaware exceed aimed at post-graduate train- the meeting that foreign grad- vate physicians. pital in Holmdel, reports that the 26 per cent figure in num- ing for FMS graduates. uates often have had training "Such an influx often brings 33 per cent of the attending bers of FMS graduates who Dr. Barry Stimmel of the far below the American serious cultural differences physicians' roster is made up are licensed physicians, a.c- Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, norm. between physician and of physicians with foreign me- cording to a study funded by New York, sees the language There is federal legislation patient and creates separate dical school degrees. the federal Department of barrier and the failure to em- pending which would restrict factions on the medical staffs New Jersey as a state has Health, Education and Wel- phasize elinical training the number of positions that a of area hospitals," he said. the highest percentage of hos- fare. (working with patients) as hospital could offer to FMS "At certain foreign training pital residents — 75 per cent These figures include Amer- the primary problems facing' graduates. centers, students are not per- — who are foreign medical ican citizens who went aboard the foreign graduate and his Dr. Stanley S. Bergen Jr., mitted, by law, to work with school (FMS) graduates. for training. Institution. president of the College of See Forelgi, page 2 Thamas Gatdmaa John K Pawlowskl Jaki DeCeree Many hurt as Lisbpn troops repel crowd LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Dozens of persons were In- Photographers from France and Norway were among jured before hundreds of troops firing into the air drove back those injured during the protest. an angry crowd of about 500 Roman Catholics attacking the Also in the north, a hostile crowd burned offices of a Com- Communist party headquarters in the northern city of Braga, munist youth organization. police reported. Meanwhile, the leader of an armed forces faction that Is Yesterday's show of force was the strongest yet by the seeking the ouster of pro-Communist Premier Vasco Gon- armed forces In the conservative north where four persons calves claimed that his group has won the secret backing of have died in violent protests against the leftward trend of the President Francisco da Costa Gomes and internal security military dominated government. chief Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho. , Police said injuries in the Braga clash were caused by stones and paving bricks thrown by the crowd and by shotgun fire from the besieged Communists. Some of the injured were in serious condition. The attack followed a march through Braga by an esti- mated 50,000 Roman Catholics protesting against the regime's GATHERING CROWD — These are some of the games, contests, food and live music. It was co- leftist policies and the military takeover of the Catholic radio more than 3,000 people who turned out at Long sponsored by the Spanish Fraternity of Monmouth station. Branch's Garfleld Park yesterday for the annual County and the City of Long Branch. (Another About 500 demonstrators broke off and tried repeatedly to Spanish Fiesta. The day-long event featured photo, page 2.) storm the Communist headquarters, but were held at bay by bursts of gunfire Into the crowd from the besieged Commu- nists. ,'•••'*', However, other mobs wrecked a Communist party li- brary, the office of a pro-Communist lawyer and the head- County launches program quarters of the MDP, a Communist satellite party. Commandos and marines were called In to protect the Communist party headquarters, but for nearly three hours the crowd hurled rocks and paving stones over the heads of the troops at the building, smashing windows and injuring at least of cooperative purchasing one soldier. The troops eventually forced the'mob back with tear gas. FREEHOLD - Monmouth Sidney Sloter, coordinator particular item make it avail- or school board directly for Firing their weapons into the air, they chased the demonstra- County has embarked on a for the cooperative purchas- able to all participating mu- the commodity. tors up alleyways and side streets and called In trucks and ar- cooperative purchasing pro- ing program in the office of nicipalities and school boards The unit price offered to mored troop carriers to seal off the approaches to the build- gram with the county's 53 county purchasing agent Ro- at the same unit price offered the county generally would be ing. municipalities and 55 public ger J. Kane, said Monmouth to the county. Once the coun- expected to be lower than school districts which Is de- County's program has been ty has awarded a contract to that offered to a municipality signed to save the smaller patterned afteY that used by the successful bidder on the or school board seeking bids bodies money. Bergen County, which In- given item, he said,- a munici- independently on the same Mrs. Gandhi The program began Friday stituted the first county coop- pality or school board may Item because of the larger when the county advertised erative purchasing program then contact the vendor and quantity the county presum- for bldS on rock salt. in the state in 1969. Three or ask to purchase the com- ably would be purchasing. The new program, In- four other counties in the modity at the same unit price Mr. Sloter said he didn't ex- stituted by the Board of Free- state have since adopted sim- contained in the firm's con- pect the stipulation that bid- dealt setback holders at Its meeting last ilar cooperative purchasing tract with the county. ders must make their com- Tuesday, Is the realization of programs, he said. modity available to the mu- NEW DELHI, India (AP) and political crisis since inde- one of the objectives Freehol- Under the program, Mr. Mr. Sloter said the munici- nicipal bodies and school - The Supreme Court dealt pendence in 1947. der Director Philip N. Gumbs Sloter explained, the county Is palities and school boards boards at the same price Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had set for county govern- making it a condition of bid- must deal directly with the would discourage any poten- a setback today, refusing to Lawyers from both sides es- ment when assumed the post ding on certain commodities vendor for a purchase and the tial bidders. hear her appeal of an election timated the court would re- of director In January. that the vendor selling the vendor bills the municipality See Country, page 2 law conviction until it deter- quire at least two weeks just mines the validity of a one- to consider the con- day-old constitutional amend- stitutionality of the amend- ment which would acquit the ment which was introduced in Indian leader. Parliament last Thursday, passed Friday, ratified by the Mrs. Gandhi's lawyers Fire guts night club in city state assemblies Saturday asked the court to overturn and signed into law by Presi- her June 12 conviction imme- dent Fakhruddln Ali Ahmed By BRIAN KELLY surreal silhouetted firemen the "O's" - reflected the rule out the possibility of ar- diately, arguing that the con- yesterday. blasted streams of water at blue and red truck light. Fire- son and said that he would stitutional amendment had LONG BRANCH - Two the ceiling and darted their men crunched glass and continue to Investigate this erased the guilty verdict. Shanti Bhushan, chief law- months ago Mike Train and lights through the charred in- sloshed through dirty water morning. But the five-man bench yer for Mrs. Gandhi's oppo- bis partner opened the re- terior, tore slabs of Insulation as they died out. The chief said that ex- headed by Chief Justice AN. nents, told newsmen after the modeled Shooter's Lounge on and parceling from the walls. All nine city companies re- ploding bottles of liquor could Ray rejected the request, ac- brief hearing that if the Broadway here. sponded to an alarm at ap- have contributed to the fire's "Did you see It before It cepting instead the argu- amendment is upheld by the burned?" he asked to no one proximately 9:45 p.m.