Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago Manhattan's Circus Saints & Sinners Club, a self-boosting boosters' organization, honor-guested folksy little Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, made him don a white gown inscribed "Doctor of Litters," carry a bag labeled "Mass Delivery." In Callander, Ont.,† fertile Father Oliva Dionne decided he had been ridiculed, slow-boiled, exploded with a damage suit against Dr. Dafoe...
Although a modern country doctor makes his calls in an automobile, 55,000,000 U. S. rural dwellers are still getting horse-&-buggy medical care. To gather facts on this problem, the staff of Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, N. Y., under the direction of Physician-in-Chief George Miner Mackenzie, last autumn held a conference of country doctors and public-health experts. Last week the papers of the Cooperstown Conference were published in a well-documented handbook, containing the most complete information on U. S. rural medicine to date.* Significant facts...
...reason why U. S. rural dwellers get poorer medical care than their city cousins is the backwardness of the average country doctor, who does little to keep up with the rapid progress of medicine. Alert young physicians no longer settle in the country, and, according to Associate Professor of Medicine John Barlow Youmans of Tennessee's Vanderbilt University, 10% to 20% of country doctors "will not take postgraduate training on their own initiative, even when opportunities are available...
...bigger reason: in a good year, an average country doctor covering a wide territory may collect $5,000 in one-and two-dollar fees. But, said vigorous Dr. Lloyd C. Warren of Franklin, N. Y., 40% of this gross income must be spent for transportation and medical supplies. So the doctor's average net income is seldom more than $3,000. "Obstetrical cases," said Dr. Warren, "are about 50% loss. Automobile accidents . . . are about 100% charity . . . and the boys with venereal disease never come back...
Although mourned by grateful thousands all over the world, "Doctor Charlie" was known as the co-organizer of America's most streamlined medical factory rather than as a practicing physician. To millions of Americans, the Mayo Clinic, with its staff of 160 top-flight physicians, its swift conveyor-belt system in which invalids, nameless but numbered, are shunted from consultants to specialists to surgeons, has long been known as the Supreme Court of condemned patients. To thousands of forward-looking physicians, the 50-year-old Clinic, which long ago initiated group practice and dispensed with family doctors, stands...