Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eliminate him entirely from private practice." All surgeons, he believes, should have their offices in hospitals and should receive salaries from hospitals. Patients should choose their hospitals, but leave the choice of their surgeon up to the chief of staff. This system is practiced in the "justly famous" Mayo Clinic. If it were put into general operation, says Dr. Bernheim, surgeons would become more highly specialized and hospitals would weed out inefficient men. Of course, "surgeons won't like it ... but men ought not to want to make great sums of money . . . for cutting into human flesh...
...today are about 110 voluntary health-insurance groups, which render services to some 2,150,000 members at a low annual rate. Most of those providing complete medical care are privately owned clinics established by doctors, such as the highly successful Ross-Loos Clinic in Los Angeles. Rapidly growing, however, are cooperative clinics, established and owned by laymen who pay, in addition to initial stock investments, a small annual sum for medical care. Most conspicuous of the cooperatives is the Group Health Association in Washington, D. C., at whose behest the Government is now prosecuting an antitrust action against...
After a year's study, Dr. Shadid called a meeting of his farmer patients, asked them to subscribe $50 each for stock in an association which would build a clinic and hospital in Elk City. Said he: "In western Oklahoma we do not have a single specialist in urology. We do not have a brain specialist, child specialist, orthopedic specialist. . . . Two thousand of you can pay $25 a year for your families, and with the $50,000 you will have collectively, you can hire eight or more good doctors and specialists who will provide you with free examinations, free...
...Yardling to profit from his icy plunge into the November Hour Exams and improve his marks by February, reading class or no reading class. And the number of men who were involved was so small that any sweeping generalizations would be unsafe. But none the less, the Psycho-Educational Clinic has been encouraged this year to conduct larger, general reading examinations in an attempt to secure more comprehensive results; and although the records may not be made public until next fall, there is talk of further expansion...
Already the Clinic has been besieged by upperclassmen who are entranced by the idea of flicking through the pages of their reading assignments. Immediate expansion may be impractical; but scientific zeal for thoroughness should not prevent the University from making more generally available, certainly in the near future, the immense practical benefits of the scheme now in embryo...