T. A. Lincoln to Medical Directors and Contract Physicians Forwarding D. Davies' BMJ Article on Asbestos Related Diseases (1983)

Internal correspondence from Corporate Medical Director Thomas A. Lincoln to company medical directors and contract physicians, attaching D. Davies' article "Asbestos related diseases without asbestosis" from the British Medical Journal of July 16, 1983. The memo comments on the article's discussion of compensability and lung cancer and on the low rate of pleural plaque detection by chest x-ray, and names Dr. Hilton Lewinsohn as the contact for questions. The attached article (pp. 2-3) discusses pleural plaques, diffuse pleural thickening and lung cancer in asbestos workers; the enclosure also includes a page of unrelated article text on knee problems.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Memo from T. A. Lincoln, Corporate Medical Director, to Medical Directors and Contract Physicians, Aug. 8, 1983, on asbestos related diseases
• Page 2: D. Davies, 'Asbestos related diseases without asbestosis,' British Medical Journal, 16 July 1983, with underlining (p. 164)
• Page 3: References for the Davies article and an unrelated BMJ article on difficulties with knees (p. 165)

People and organizations

From Thomas A. Lincoln, M.D. (Corporate Medical Director) to Medical Directors; Contract Physicians.

• Thomas A. Lincoln (author)
• Medical Directors (recipient)
• Contract Physicians (recipient)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• British Medical Association (named)
• British Medical Journal (named)
• Industrial Injuries Council (named)
• John Wiley & Sons (named)
• The Times Health Supplement (named)

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Pages on our site about what this document covers: Asbestos and Lung Cancer · Pleural Plaques and Pleural Thickening · What is asbestosis.

About this copy

This is document UC-3593 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 3 pages. Production numbers UCC 008226 to UCC 008228.