Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gist of Miss Lape's survey, said Dr. Osgood, who volunteered as spokesman for the President's guests, was: 1) doctors want a Secretary of Health in the Cabinet, 2) doctors are willing to become executors of a Federal public health program which would look after the health of every U. S. inhabitant...
...President replied that he would not consider enlarging his Cabinet for the sake of any single pressure group like the doctors. He hinted, however, that he was considering this idea: that a sub-Cabinet officer like Josephine Roche, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of the Public Health Service, might well supervise all the public health and maternal and child welfare activities of the Government, now scattered in the Treasury, Interior, Commerce and Labor Departments...
Last week Dr. Kopetzky appeared at the American Medical Association convention with a set of public health axioms, based on Miss Lape's survey and a survey by the New York State Medical Society. The A. M. A.'s executives and trustees were vigilantly prepared to balk Dr. Kopetzky's plan-for the minor reason that Miss Lape had not consulted them, for the major reason that it predicated a drastic reversal of Orthodox Medicine's most basic tenets...
...Kopetzky's axioms: the health of its citizens is the first concern of the State; indigence is a problem of a community and must be met out of taxes...
...accepted these axioms as its own, Organized Medicine logically must accept the following corollaries: 1) Every one of the 150,000 U. S. doctors must become an officer in the Federal Public Health Service, the Government to pay for all the preventive medicine which they practice in their offices, such as immunizations against smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid...