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                                   MORRis FisHEBF-IN,M.D.

                                    5-454 SOUTH SHORF- DRIVE
                                     CHICAGO IS,ILLINOIS



             December 23, igo'4



             '@@lic',-,ael E. De Bakey,, M.D.
             Baylor University
             College of MedLcine
             Texas Medical Center
             Houston, Texas.

             Dear Mike:
             i am thrilled  to have the advance copy of your  report  to  the
             @resident of the Commission  on Heart Disease, Cancer and
             Stroke.  I want to congratulate you on having come forward
                                                   d one for  which  I  would
             @.,ith a highly constructive program an
             wish to do all that I possibly can.   I am sending  you  a  copy
             of an editorial I wrote almost immediately  for  Medical  World-
             News based on the newspaper accounts and the report            me
             to Medical World News from I.-lashington. However, the  full
             report goes so much more into detail that  I  expect  to  follow
             with additional editorials urging  complete  cooperation  of
             all the agencies concerned.
             This afternoon I sat with a committee  from  the  University   of
             Chicago which is-about to go out voluntarily to raise
             $500,000 for a complete heart center at  the  University  of
             Chicago. This will be headed by Pro-Lessor  Hans  Hecht  who   is
             coming to the University from Utah.
             I an, aware also that our Health Commissioner, Dr. Samuel
             Andelman  is contemplating a visit by you to Chicago by the
             end of January and I understand I have  been  suggested  for  mem-
             bership on the co=ittee-that will sponsor your appearance.
             W-en I became president of the  Chicago  Heart  Association  about
                                                          was  the  distracting
             18 months  ago, one of my first suggestions
             of Chicao-o with the establishment of ten heart centers in leading
             institutions to cover the city of Chicago.  This would have been
             done under the leadership of the  Chicago  Heart  Association  but
             there ,;as a considerable dragging of Leet  and  the  difficulties
             of finding funds,for a special secretary and an office to carry
             on this work within the  Heart  Association.,  Conceivably  such
             funds might be available to carry on the work as a @oint venture
             of the Chicago Heart Association and  the  Chicago  Department  of
             Health.









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              Dr. Michael E. DeBakey         -2-              Decen@ber 23, 19 6 4



              I"s you can observe fro,-,i all of this, the not that holds this
              situation is boiling and there is al,@,,ays @he possibility that
              it mipht boil over, leaving very little useful residue.

              l,lith ny very best wishes,


              Sincerely yours,



              l,,orris Fishbein, M.D.
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