The Soviet Health Ministry has accused three more Jews of medical inefficiency and quackery, the New York Times reported here today in a dispatch from Moscow.
The dispatch cited an article in the “Medical Worker,” a newspaper published by the Ministry, which accused a doctor, Myra Israilevna Chernyakova, of having made guesses in examination of human tissues in cancer tests rather than in having performed the indicated biopsies. Two men, identified as M. Z. Izrallit and Zaitzev, were charged with having practiced medicine and risen to the rank of chief of a hospital section and chief of a hospital, respectively, although neither man was a physician.
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