Word: doctorless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary Olin West's Chicago desk lay a resolution transmitted by California's Secretary Warnshuis. In that resolution California doctors prayed that the A. M. A. convention next month will condemn a practice which has spread through California. In San Francisco and Los Angeles a doctorless patient may march into a hospital, get a complete diagnosis by X-ray men, pathologists, urinoscopists and other technicians. Since diagnosis has been the prerogative of the practicing physician, "the provision of such diagnostic medical service will inevitably foster fundamental changes in the practice of medicine. . . . Therefore be it Resolved, That . . . [this...
...longer afford to pay any doctor bills whatsoever. To get around that economic difficulty doctors have invented several hundred prepay and partial-pay schemes, including $10-a-year hospitalization insurance (see p. 50). Dr. Parran does not believe such systems will solve the problem of patientless doctors and doctorless patients. He wants socialized medicine, with free drugs and hospital service to every inhabitant of the U. S. who cannot afford them. As filler for doctors' pocketbooks he would permit the present system of the private practice of medicine to continue, would have private practitioners dispense the free drugs, assign...