European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Jury 1977 the stars and stripes Page if p for heart disease v by Harold Schmeck new York he patient was Normal at the but within 20 minutes to had developed deaf signs of five different serious types of heart in spite of these alarming abnormalities in breathing and heart the several eminent physicians and members of Congress present All seemed they were watching demonstration of s heart disease training Manulkin developed by the University of Miami to help instruct medical nurses and other health professionals in the diagnosis of Many different heart the Manulkin is a lifelike effigy of a Young adult male from hips its Chest and Abdomen move As it a close observer can tee the pulsing of blood vessels in its More Are the sounds that can be heard through the Stethoscope when the student places this device against the Mann Lkins these synchronized appropriately with the rhythm of breathing and give a lifelike reproduction of the sounds Ana movements of a Normal person or a person with any of about 50 different heart each of these situations is programmed on a tape was Scute that can be inserted in the Mann Lkins control cassette number 49 is or example number 39 is com nary heart disease and number 17 depicts a person with a particular Type of Leaky heart with each cassette goes a series of lecture slides giving the hypothetical patients medical symptoms and other through a series a questions linked to this the slides Lead the student to the diag no in introducing the Paul said the device ought to be useful in re certification examinations of doctors As Well As in train ing health Rogers is chairman of the health and environment subcommittee of the House com Merce Torley chairman of the Commerce James several other officers of the National institutes of health and congressional staff Mem Bers watched the demonstration at the Ray bum House office building and tried their hands at diagnosing the by Bovce Rensberger new York times one out of every 20 doctors in the United states suffers from a psychiatric disturbance severe enough to damage his or her ability to care properly for the american medic no association has Only about five years the psychical Ric Aliy impaired doctor was either ignored or discreetly protected by his Many doctors at least in that such doctors either did not exist or were very that attitude is the Ama has held several conferences to Alert medical leaders to the matter and to discuss ways to protect patients and rehabilitate Doc although the Overall rate of mental illness among by the is comparable to int of the population in Are far More Likely in resort la alcohol or usually prescription sedatives or the drug addiction rate among doctors is estimated at Between 30 and 60 limes Paul Rogers left and Barley staggers examine the ailing Mann Lkins medical Michael professor of Medicine at the University of Miami and principal inventor of the Cave Ibe he said develop ment of the device took about 10 years and Cost roughly 2 the funds from several foundation in recent from the National lung and blood the electronics Tor the device were developed by Dar Rell former National aeronautics and space administration Engineer and now a research associate at the medical specialists at several medi Cal schools to the medical and scientific aspects of the Gordon the actual physical shape of the Mannikin was based on a plaster Cost made o a medical student at the school Gordon said the american College of cardiology and to medical Vale and Duke have ordered Copi Iki of the each o which Cost tie own Nikon which was demonstrated recently stares with but otherwise lifelike eyes substitute Bead has been Gordon with pupils that will dilate and the Voct can also be programmed to show characteristic Evi Dence of Diab Clen and some circulatory while the named can go from sem Blance of Normal Aey to near death at the change of a Cas settes it maintains at All limes a Ruddy plastic of stimulated Gordon said his group considered designing for changeable skin decided it would be too expensive to build in the Means to match the manikins pallor to its with mental illness that of the population in in Addi Medicine is plagued with doctors who become senile but continue to at a conference on these Herbert a Detroit observed that doctors seem More vulnerable to mental troubles than other occupational Many of the same psychodynamics that propelled us toward our he citing a compulsive striving for Are the same psychodynamics that predispose to emotional drag abuse and mental ill Raskin noted that patients come to a physician because they have some difficulty Bat they cannot handle they Are often tighten Edburt Are seek ing someone who can be to care for them with almost parental con Cern but also with flawless scientific skills and personal maturity in presenting ourselves As phys Raskin we implicitly assure our patient that we have attained All the professional and personal qualities he is a human being who tries to play the role of a Raskin is bound to rail add growing pressures due to government and Public scrutiny of medical practice and the demands for perfection implied by the threat of malpractice Law and the temptation to escape through drugs or alcohol becomes even in the Amas policymaking House of delegates approved a statement that doctors have an ethical responsibility to assist impaired colleagues to seek help and to advise them on whether to curtail or suspend their ii the sick doctor will la go uie colleague is urged to report him to the local medical Socle to if to the state licensing in the Ama proposed a Model state Law that would make state licensing Board with Power to identify and evaluate sick the Model Law was patterned on an existing Florida Law that had had some sue Cess in taking away the licenses of sick doctors or rehabilitating the physicians and returning them to in Only Florida and Texas had such to 27 states have enacted legis lation on tick in Many states that have sick doctor medical societies have appointed committees of doctors usually psychiatrists specializing in addiction and some tires including doctors who themselves have recovered from addiction to con front the sick among the obstacles to helping sick Phy according to Many is the reluctance of their colleagues to report Many doctors fear Legal some states have ranted immunity to doctors in Good turn in a sick