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...trailer medical centers to the trailer chapels now used in non-Catholic regions. The St. Louis Archdiocese has just built a twelve-ton truck trailer medical unit to tour doctorless-dentistless districts and serve both Catholics and non-Catholics...
...inertia or unfounded prejudice. Thus nearly three thousand medical men have come here since 1934 and more than half are already successfully resettled after passing State medical board examinations in English. The one thousand men not yet practicing are anxious to fill the more than two thousand opportunities in doctorless communities which the Committee for Resettlement of Foreign Physicians has found and which our own medical men ignore. But forty-four states have refused to make minor alterations in their laws to permit these "furiners" to practice. So unsolicited requests for immigrant doctors from towns in thirty of these states...
...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...
...stored up. Two of his crew were dying and he had no ship's doctor. Nor could his wireless, fumbling about, reach a ship with a doctor. It did, however, make contact with the U. S. S. West Calumb going north from Buenos Aires to Boston. Doctorless too, the West Calumb's captain sent his wireless calls fingering until he made contact with the French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc. Then it became relatively simple for the seamen's symptoms to be relayed by the West Calumb and translated to the French doctors, who relayed back pertinent...