Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kopetzky-Lape program embodied so much prudent common sense that for two days and a night some of the hardest heads in the U. S. wrangled. What would doctors get out of this? What their patients? Who would run U. S. medicine? A sentimental sociologist like Secretary of Labor Perkins or a political Relief Administrator like Mr. Hopkins? Or a doctor like Surgeon General Parran? Or a medical oligarchy like the A. M. A.'s Secretary-General Manager Olin West, Lobbyist William Creighton Woodward and Editor Morris Fishbein...
Patients would get the world's best medical care, because they would not fear to consult a doctor on account of his bill. The Government would...
There probably would be a Secretary of Social Welfare in the Cabinet who might be a doctor, like Hoover's Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, Coolidge's Hubert Work. There might be a sub-secretary in charge of health, analogous to President Roosevelt's Josephine Roche...
...with you gentlemen and I would like to deliver from the President of the United States a message coming direct with his authority. He said I was authorized to say to you he knew something of your meeting, he had been for some time observing the courses of the doctor necessarily, meaning (of course you know what he meant) that he was not far removed from constantly keeping up the features of the profession, and he wished you success as to your undertaking, and (if I use his exact words) he hoped that you would find a way to cooperate...
...know what is going to happen to you? You are going to have a sudden set of individuals who are shortly going to demand of you that there be a system of examination and application by the Federal Government upon every doctor of America to prove his right to be admitted to practice under the Federal law in addition to that which he is now enjoying under his local [State] acts. And then we will come about to the thing which I am utterly against and wholly abhor but which I tell you is on its way-the designation...