CHARITY HOSPITAL OF LOUISIANA
AT NEW ORLEANS

 

LOUIS BURROUGHS, M. DO.

OIRECTOR

 

June 4, 1969

Dr. Joshua Letterberg
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, California 94305

Dear Dr. Letterberg:

Many thanks for your note of June 2nd in which you sent me copies of
material which appeared in the Washington Post.

I believe the statement I made before the Senate Small Business Committee,
Subcommittee on Monopoly, which is chaired by Senator Gaylord Nelson, will
give you a good idea of my views concerning this particular subject.

The adoption of generic names as the principal method of indicating
drug nomenclature will in no way interfere with the physician's prerogative
to prescribe what he deems best. The plan that I have proposed to the
Senator as outlined in my testimony indicates that specifically.

Sincerely,

John Adriani, M. D.

Associate Director
JA:dl

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