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...criticisms are safe because they are nothing new. Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School, saw these troubles in American medicine and was already working on a way to overcome them when he came to the school as dean in 1965. Ebert came with the hope of setting up an alternate system of care that would over-come the problems of impersonal, over-specialized, costly care. His political ability proved stronger than the inertia of the staid Medical School faculty, and in 1969 the doors of the Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP) opened...
Both President Bok and Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School, have expressed an interest in the subcommittee's work, Whitla said. He said both came to the subcommittee's first meeting in January...
FOUR HARVARD Medical School doctors have pieces in this issue. Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School, recounts the history of American med schools, but he also makes some recommendations for changes in the structure of medical education. He says there is no need to separate pre-med work in college from the basic science studies of th first two years of med school. If the two phases actually were joined, however, the heavy emphasis on science that would result could hardly open the aspiring physician's eyes to the importance of integrating social and humanist considerations into...
...Ebert criticizes America's teaching hospitals for pursuing narrowly specialized care and research. This point is very important. All doctors receive some training in teaching hospitals, and the hospitals' emphasis on highly technical and specialized care often means that primary care is treated as a second-rate area of practice in physicians' educations. One of the main problems contemporary medicine is that too many doctors deal only with one area or function of the body and not enough look at the whole person, including the person's social background and life history. The latter kind of physician, working with specialists...
There is a hardhat (Clifton James) whose workaday life seems to have been as terminal as his present state. His distraught wife (Joyce Ebert) cannot ac cept her husband's imminent death...