Word: forli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rates for Health Service subscribers: $1.50 a month for single persons, $2.50 for married couples, 50? for each child under 21, a maximum family charge of $4. In addition, heads of families must pay a $3 initiation fee, an extra dollar for the first four home calls, an extra $25...
To get under way, Health Service has raised $3,000 in private contributions. In addition, the Service has the privilege of dipping into a $20,000 emergency pot guaranteed by Boston philanthropists. To make the Service selfsupporting, it needs a minimum of 4,000 participants. Last week when the plan...
Dr. Cabot & friends, in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine last week, promised that they would cause "minimum disturbance to existing private medical practice." But the Journal pointed out that plans for Health Service, Inc. had been submitted to the Massachusetts Medical Society last spring, had been...
The world of medicine boasts some 6,000 medical journals, almost a tenth of them in the U. S. A major requirement for scientific publication is dullness. All articles in British and U. S. journals are cut to the same hidebound pattern: The problem is stated, its history reviewed (often...
Medical editors frown upon literary graces as Puritans frowned upon dancing. Almost all medical reports are warty with Greek and Latin jargon: "Etiologic factors" for "causes," "acute coryza" for "the common cold," "osseous structures" for "bones." Yet the modern physician's bible, Sir William Osier's Principles and...