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MoRRIS FISHBEIN,M.D.
S454 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE
CHICAGO I5,ILLINOIS

December 23, 1964

Michael E, De Bakey, M.D.

' Baylor University ‘,

College of Medicine
Texas Medical Center
Houston, Texas.

Dear Mike: .. an

I am thrilled to have the advance copy of your report .to the
President of the Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and
Stroke. I want to congratulate you on having come forward
with a highly constructive program and one for which I would
wish to do all that I possibly can. I am sending you @ copy
of an editorial I wrote almost immediately for Medical World
News based on the newspaper accounts and the report which came
=o Medical World News from Washington. However, the full
report goes so much more into detail that I expect to follow
with additional editorials urging complete cooperation of
all the agencies concerned.

 

This afternoon I sat with a committee from the University of
Chicago which is: about to go out voluntarily to raise
$500,000 for a complete heart center at the University of
Chicago. This will be headed by Professor Hans Hecht who is
coming to the University from Utah.

I am aware also that our Health Commissioner, Dr. Samuel
Andelman, is contemplating a visit by you to Chicago by the
end of January and I understand I have been suggested for mem~
bership on the committee that will sponsor your appearance.

When I became president of the Chicago Heart Association about

18 months ago, one of my first suggestions was the districting
of Chicago with the establishment of ten heart centers in leading
institutions to eover the city of Chicago. This would have been
done under the leadership of the Chicago Heart Association but
there was a considerablé dragging of feet and the difficulties

of finding funds for a special secretary and an office to carry
on this work within the Heart Association. . Conceivably such
funds might be available to carry on the work as a joint venture
of the Chicago Heart Association and the Chicago Department of
Health. ,
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Dr. Michael E. DeBakey -2- December 23, 1964

AS you can observe from all of this, the pot that holds this
situation is boiling and there is always the possibility that

it might boil over, leaving very little useful residue.

With my very best wishes,

Sincerely yours,

ALA RAAG F
NEVA
Morris Fishbein, M.D.
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