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Word: gardelegen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, the people of Hildburghausen were relatively lucky. They had a county hospital and six rural "ambulatoriums'' (clinics). In the county of Gardelegen, not a single private practitioner was left for 55,000 people, and they had only one county hospital - understaffed because many hospital doctors have joined the exodus to the West. In Rostock, one remaining eye specialist, a 72-year-old man, keeps a ten-hour-a-day schedule. The flow of fleeing physicians has reached a flood stage of 800 or more a year, and shows no signs of subsiding. Remaining doctors, especially the relatively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: Doctors' Dilemma | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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