Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation has only four-fifths as many doctors as it needs. Estimates as to the numbers of deaths attributable to inadequate medical care run as high as almost 350,000 annually. Medical care is scarcest where it is needed most. With increasing specialization, medical costs have risen so high that a serious illness in most white collar families, even in those who are able to pay for proper medical facilities, can devour more than a quarter of the family income and completely shatter a budget...
...able to determine the kind and extent of treatment they will use. Doctors do not become government employees nor are patients compelled to go to any doctor they do not wish to. Administration will be as decentralized as possible with local groups composed of lay and medical personnel taking care of the bulk of it. Patient-doctor relationships will be unaltered. The major change from the private medical system will be the man who pays the bills. Under the Fair Deal plan, the government-run insurance company takes care of the expenses...
...Taft and Hill bills provide for the indigent in the manner of a relief agency. In contrast, the Truman proposal covers more than half of the nation. It absorbs most of the shock for that enormous group who can afford proper care for serious illnesses only at the expense of their normal standard of living. Harry Truman summed it up as well as anybody could: "Medical care is needed as a right and not as a medical dole...
...Hygiene Department has a fine big building near the trolley tracks on Mt. Auburn Street for the care and feeding of mild illnesses. Students who have managed to avoid stretch at Stillman don't know what they're missing, those who have been there find the experience unforgettable...
Smith entered early this spring with a Strep throat, was issued his pajamas and water, absorbent little gray cotton slippers, and put on a three-hour penicillin schedule. His fever promptly dropped, and he, too, began to beg to get out. But Strep throats are tricky things, and Stillman care is cautions. Smith stayed in the small respiratory ward three weeks; the first week was the best. He discovered a batch of jig-saw puzzles thoughtfully placed on a shelf in the ward, and completed the lot, though all were marked with "seven damn pieces missing" or similar discouraging comments...