ACCEPTANCES IN THE FIELD OF MEDICINE OF WESTERN IDEAS AND PRACTICES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R000901240001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 1, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Q. Do you know of any instances of resistance in the field of medicine to
Western Ideas and practices?
2. A. I have heard no doctors from the countries of the Near East and Far East
who have had the opportunity to see and evaluate the treatment and
diagnosis employed by the Western medical profession say that they oppose
these ideas and practices. From these doctors I have heard statements
that their practice of medicine, both as to treatment and diagnosis, is
from 15 to 25 years behind that which is practiced in the US. I know
this to be true from my own visits in 1950 to Syria, Lebanon, Turkey,
Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The doctors from these areas have told me that
if they had laboratories,, and other diagnostic facilities, and the teohni-
cians, they, too* would be practicing their profession in the Western
way.
3. Last fall,, a prominent doctor and professor of medicine from East pikist '
told me that he was going to do everything within his power to doaway'~
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