Here’s the full story from on of my readers:
I was, long ago, (NOT close) friends with Dr Robert Mendelsohn, author of *Confessions Of A Medical Heretic* and *Male Practice.* He told me some stories. … One was that he was head of the Education arm of the American Medical Association (AMA) for (I think it was) four years. He said “they” intentionally filtered out any independent thinkers to even get into medical school. Yes, a few slipped through the cracks, but the AMA head Honchos wanted NO doctors who would Rock The Boat. They wanted *Go Along To Get Along* Docs in their ranks. … I was friends & associates with some of the *Boat Rocker* Medical Doctors and Osteopaths. They caught a LOT of grief, and even bankruptcy for a few, for their independence of thought and practice. … After he published his books, Dr. Mendelsohn told me the AMA had an “informal committee” on *What to do about Bob Mendelsohn.* Apparently, he was too well respected and too well known to just trash him. So he was not as traumatized as some of the physicians I knew in those days. Some of them got it pretty bad for going aging the grain. This kept everyone else, the more timid, in line, apparently.