INSTITUT de CARDIOLOGIE de MONTREAL

5415, Boul. de l'Assomption

Tél. ; 254-8341
Montréal 36

December 24, 1964.

VEC
78 I96,

Doctor Michael DeBakey, é
Baylor Medical School,

Baylor University,

HOUSTON, TEXAS, U.S.A.

Dear Doctor DeBakey:

I read Time Magazine on December 18, and discovered that you were
Chairman of a commission dealing with medical problems. It was a great
pleasure to meet you in Santiago last October and I hope that you will
have some free moments during the Christmas and New Year Holidays.

I am very interested in the report of your commission and I would
appreciate to know where and if I could have a reprint. I would like
to know the definition, the privileges and administrative structures of
what your commission called "high-powered regional centers". We are
now completing a new building in Montreal called the Montreal Heart Ins-
titute for treatment, teaching and research. ,

This center is autonomous, having its own administration. It is
not connected to any general hospital but is affiliated to the medical
school of the University of Montreal. I wonder if such an Institute is
within the scope of your definition of the cardiac center.

I am very impressed by the summary of your report as given by Time
Magazine and I would enjoy of having the privilege of reading it in its
original form.

I am sorry to bother you. I hope to have the pleasure of meeting
you again in the near future.

Please receive and transmit to your wife and family my very best
wishes for an Happy New Year.

QoakBoand wo
Paul David, M.D.
Director

 

PD:JM