Exhibit 039 ยท Memorandum
Frederick T. Gates, "Concerning Private Gifts to States and a Medical Policy"
Gates tells the GEB trustees that physicians' fee-setting "is the greatest present American obstruction to the usefulness of the science of medicine. For it confines the benefits of the science too largely to the rich." In the same memo he writes that big business sponsors preventive medicine "because health is found in a variety of ways to be profitable."
- Source
- Frederick T. Gates, memorandum to the General Education Board
- Date
- 26 February 1925
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://archive.org/details/rockefellermedic00browrich
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Known through E. Richard Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men (1979), pp. 113 and 158; wording checked against Brown. Archival locator from Brown's notes 29 and 31 (p. 254) and 68 (p. 260): Gates collection, Rockefeller Foundation Archives.