R. L. H. Murphy to Committee Members Forwarding Mount Sinai Letter (Franzblau and Lilis to R. Cherniack) Criticizing the Asbestos Diagnosis Consensus Statement (1986)

A one-page cover note from Dr. Raymond Murphy to committee members forwards a November 22, 1986 letter to the editor of the American Review of Respiratory Disease from Mount Sinai physicians. The letter criticizes the committee's consensus statement on diagnosing nonmalignant asbestos-related disease as too restrictive, including its definition of asbestosis, its ILO 1/1 radiographic cut-off, and its omission of pleural abnormalities.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Cover memo from Raymond L. H. Murphy, M.D., to Committee Members, December 31, 1986, forwarding the attached letter
• Pages 2-5: Letter of November 22, 1986 from Mount Sinai physicians to Reuben Cherniack, M.D., commenting on the consensus statement, with references

People and organizations

From Raymond L. H. Murphy, M.D. (Pulmonology Services, Inc., Boston; chairman of the committee that wrote the consensus statement); Alfred Franzblau, M.D. (Mount Sinai Medical Center, Division of Environmental and Occupational Medicine); Ruth Lilis, M.D. (Mount Sinai Medical Center, Division of Environmental and Occupational Medicine) to Committee Members; Reuben Cherniack, M.D. (Editor, American Review of Respiratory Disease (addressee of the Mount Sinai letter)).

• Ruth Lilis (author)
• Raymond L. H. Murphy, Jr. (author)
• Ad Hoc Committee of Scientific Assembly on Environmental and Occupational Health (named)
• American Review of Respiratory Disease (named)
• Environmental Sciences Laboratory (named)
• ILO (named)
• Mount Sinai Hospital (named)
• Mount Sinai School of Medicine (named)
• National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine (named)
• The Mount Sinai Medical Center (named)
• U.S. Bureau of Mines (named)

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About this copy

This is document UC-2580 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 5 pages. Production numbers UCC 023612 to A02179.