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Militant medical students are bey coming organized and work!~© ou/ the strategy for dramatt Ww 4 fssue, — on } One student during the recent strike ina large New York men- tal hospital interrupted a convo- . cation speech by Supreme Court ‘Justice Abe Fortes with a state- * ment of support for the sirtkers. A badly needed dialogue between’ . doctors and nurses, and doctors and patients around this Issue, ., aS well as an attack onthe autho- ritarian,+ forced . role-playing _ structure of hospital life {s inthe . works, The issue of community “; eontrol over hospitals is in- a creasingly seen as the only way ; "of combatting the fears and sus- picions ghetto residents have of ° the depersonalizing hospital in- stitution, NO The rebel doctors are seeking © ways of contacting individuals and . Groups at other hospitals to — broaden the base of the move- ment and gain support, A confron- tatlon with the hospital adminis- tration Is inevitable but the in- volvement of the Albert Einstein Medical School, the most liberal in the country, might prove to be | & factor helpful to the rebels, an | advantage other hospital rebels . j might not share, . This is not the only place that cracks are appearing in the bas- tion of medicine. I have two friends, a husband and wife, at- tending medical school who are determined to join the guerrillas in South America as soon as they ’ have sufficient training in tropi- eal diseases, A SMALL GROUP OF DOC- ‘TORS AT ANOTHER HOSPITAL ARE CLANDESTINELY COL- -, LECTING MEDICAL SUPPLIES NEEDED IN CUBA, Currently - there fs a group of young Ame- rican physicians attending acon- ference in Cuba, Recently over eighty students (one third of the student body) at Stanford Univer- sity Medical School signed a statement saying they would not participate.in the Vietnam War, There fs a groving Hst of angry _ young doctors willing to perform abortions. or at least make re- ferrals to others who will. A _. Small number of doctors are agreeing to treat bullet wounds of riot victims without reporting “Zthem to the police, Last year a ~ Qroup of medical students broke ‘Bp a meeting of the AMA conven- _ fon in San Francisco and that is not the last the AMA has seen of ' * the insurgents, yo, . . The role-that physicians and hs a. | . a far greater extent than eve e Walker Report Suggests. ‘thout the medical Personne} nd the first-aid facilities they iset up, there would have been faa ,More Serlous injurles andpossj.. - bly deaths suffered, The Medical corps proved quite brave as well ° as competent for they were often singled out by police for “Spe- elal consideration” , . - j . Al this is quite hearteningand one realized how deep the move- ment is cutting intothe American System when protest at this level ‘of intensity from professionals . begins evolving, oo ~~ Doctors are not the only group * Of ‘professionals .in rebellion, * Young militant lawyers are will- 2 ing to confront the system innew “more dramatic ways, Gus —Relschback, a Jaw student, was recently brought before a tribu- nal of professors at Columbia University Law School facing “_psuspension for his- role in the strike, His fellow students broke up the tribunal and drove the in-* , Muisitors from their bench, They _&nstalled a people’s court and ; ried the judges instead, My attorney, twenty-seven _ year old Jerry Lefcourt, is typi- : eal of the new breed, His attitude «is totally political, His arguments in court are given more conside- ration for thelr propaganda value than for just freeing a cHent, His . clients who include the New York Panthers and Columbia SDS stu- _ dents would have it no other way. The old ACLU attitude of dress ' alce, keep your moyth shut and be 7 Feasonable is not ly missing ’ Yrom the repertory of these new . lawyers, itis in fact, scorned, ‘The swelling of our ranks with ' doctors, engineers, lawyers, mt- litary tacticians, and the like is & most encouraging sign. This corrupt system we live under ts . Manned by engineers of one sort or another, History majors and fpoets are useless appendages. . [Professionals who know how to ‘put things together and take things: fapart are not so expendable, It "+ seems like it isn’t such a barren winter afterall, = - -. ‘4 » Medical studenis played: in Chi-4 cago was Invaluable, It was ab-{ solute war concitions Zor many, ! j Chicago police refused to call, , ambulances or provide any as-° sistance to the wounded, and of- ten unconscious demonstrators, tet oe ae