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Across the land are 1,500 city, county and state hospitals, about half of them for chronic illnesses such as insanity and tuberculosis. Almost 700 give a wide and ever-widening range of general medical care without charge to those who cannot pay for it. Countless persons too proud to accept "charity" publicly, go to private physicians but do not pay their bills; they represent 5% of some doctors' practices, up to 25% of others...
...Blue Shield, which has grown phenomenally in four years. Among the 34 million, about 13 million have additional coverage for some physicians' bills, usually only while in hospital. Some 3½ million of these, in turn, are insured against most types of medical expense (excluding dentistry, optometry and chronic illnesses like tuberculosis) from the sickbed at home to the operating room. But even under these policies, usually only the first $2 to $4 for each doctor's visit is covered...
...disastrous rupture of the appendix. For doctors, Dr. Boyce also has a suggestion: tell patients in advance what to do if they think they have appendicitis. For keepers of vital statistics, he has this criticism: don't lump together all deaths from appendicitis, whether caused by the chronic or the acute form of the disease. This obscures the seriousness of the acute form, he says, which, with its complications, actually causes 99% of all appendicitis deaths...
What really worries Dr. Seliger is the in-between group of heavy social drinkers. Increasing in numbers, he says, they are a danger for three reasons: 1) they get themselves and their friends into jams; 2) they are bad accident risks; and 3) they make a training ground for chronic alcoholics. "Many business leaders, professional men and high-powered executives [are] in this medical bracket...
About 5% of all workers, Dr. McMurry believes, are chronic malcontents and 1% are paranoids. He says that such workers join unions to vent their unresolved, aggressive impulses upon management. He believes that union leaders fall into three main groups: 1) sincere idealists; 2) emotionally immature neurotics who tend to be exhibitionists; 3) psychopathic personalities who regard labor as a racket...