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It was more difficult, but we didn't allow one doctor to stay on one insurance company's calendar. We also broke up the calendars. The convenient way for the insurance companies was to have all their cases on one calendar at one date on one morning. That just made for a concentration of that company's cases in the Medical Department and on our examiners' and referees' desks. So we broke that up and provided for a rotation of the cases. All these were painful things.

We started our own investigation of our own Medical Department at that time. Later on there was a much broader one. In '37 or '38 they had some real scandal. I've forgotten what it was. There was also an investigation later on started by Howard Cullman - a sort of neurotic man. He got Herbert Lehman's ear. Cullman was already beginning to operate before I left. He had a tobacco fortune. Now he's in the business of backing Broadway shows. He makes an awful lot of money doing that. He's an interesting, neurotic kind of a fellow, but awfully difficult. He's on the Port of New York Authority. He's got a great deal of ability, but he's very neurotic, very difficult and very self-willed.

He had a hospital that he had backed - the Beekman





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