Thomas A. Lincoln to Medical Directors and Contract Physicians on Asbestos Related Diseases, Transmitting a British Medical Journal Article (1983)

Internal memo from the Corporate Medical Director to company medical directors and contract physicians, attaching a 16 July 1983 British Medical Journal article by D. Davies on asbestos-related diseases without asbestosis. The memo notes that only a small percentage of pleural plaques are detectable by usual chest radiographs and says poor-quality or poorly interpreted chest x-rays could expose the company to accusations of inadequate care. The attached article and a page of unrelated BMJ material and references follow.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Internal correspondence from Thomas A. Lincoln, M.D., to Medical Directors and Contract Physicians, Aug. 8, 1983, on asbestos related diseases
• Page 2: BMJ article 'Asbestos related diseases without asbestosis' by D. Davies (16 July 1983), with the end of a preceding editorial
• Page 3: Reference list for the Davies article and the BMJ editorial 'Difficulties with knees' by Cdr Lichtowler

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)

Related pages

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

About this copy

This is document UC-3619 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 3 pages. Production numbers UCC 008440 to UCC 008442.