Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...detractors would say no; his admirers would say yes. The majority on the sidelines would agree with his admirers-or how else, they would say, can we have freedom of the press? But editors-and the public-could wish that Pearson, and his fellow hip-shooting columnists, show more care in getting it right, rather than getting it first-and a greater sense of responsibility in deciding what is legitimate public news and what is mere troublemaking gossip...
...country doctors work together in a clinic, says Pressly, both doctors and patients are better off. The doctors can take time off for vacations or for refresher courses; the patients get more thorough care. A general practitioner, he thinks, can take care of 85% of the people who are sick; only about 15% need specialists. In his early days, 90% of his practice was home calls, 10% office. Now the percentage is nearly reversed. Says he: "People realize they get more for their money in a clinic or a doctor's office...
...Blue Shield Commissions, headed by Dr. Paul Ramsey Hawley. The idea was to issue policies covering hospital and medical bills on a nationwide scale, which would allow big businesses to sign one contract covering all employees, no matter where they work. The plan would give more people better medical care, and thus probably lessen agitation for compulsory insurance. But A.M.A. said no: the whole thing looked like socialism, it called for too much centralization and too much interference with doctors by laymen...
Then A.M.A.'s rulers voted to assess each of its 140,000 members $25, the first such levy in the organization's 100 years. The $3,500,000 would be spent on a campaign of "education" to tell people the advantages of the "American system" of medical care. Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing says that the "education" will be A.M.A. "lobbying" against Government health insurance...
...foot. His father, a doctor, suffered from metatarsalgia (a pain between instep and toes). His medical colleagues did him no good, but an oldtime chiropodist helped him. Said Lewi's father: "Maurice, someday it may be your opportunity to let the doctors know the value of foot care." That was in 1876, when Maurice was a medical student...