Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons for retirement this time seemed to add up to equal parts health, pique and finances: "I'll work on until June and then, because of my blood pressure, I'll quit for a year at least." He added bitterly: "When Stop the Music can give three iceboxes away instead of two and get listeners, it's a silly business to be in anyway." And what about death & taxes? "You wind up being a sieve for the Treasury Department . . . All you're working toward is a coffin, and I never saw one with a built...
...Phoenix on behalf of the project, and in 1943 the 232-bed St. Monica's Hospital was built, at a cost of more than $500,000. Father McLoughlin served as superintendent. He was also chairman of the Phoenix Housing Authority and secretary of the state Board of Health...
Socialized medicine-or anything that even looks or smells like socialized medicine-gives the American Medical Association chills & fever. Last week in St. Louis (see above) A.M.A. officials were running a temperature. Harry Truman, pledged to compulsory national health insurance, had unexpectedly won the election-with a Democratic Congress. What should A.M.A...
First, A.M.A.'s policy-making House of Delegates turned down a proposal for a nonprofit national health insurance company. The plan was recommended by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Commissions, headed by Dr. Paul Ramsey Hawley. The idea was to issue policies covering hospital and medical bills on a nationwide scale, which would allow big businesses to sign one contract covering all employees, no matter where they work. The plan would give more people better medical care, and thus probably lessen agitation for compulsory insurance. But A.M.A. said no: the whole thing looked like socialism, it called...
...bluntest words to the medicos came from Dr. Herbert Ratner, head of the Student Health Service at Loyola University School of Medicine. Dr. Ratner, a Jew converted to Roman Catholicism nine years ago, accused modern medical schools of sinking to a "veterinarian level by studying man as if he were a horse instead of a human being with a spirit . . . We see nature as violated, when modern man as the result of medical propaganda goes through life fearing death [and] ends up as a vitamin-taking, antacid-consuming, barbiturate-sedated, aspirin-alleviated, weed-habituated, benzedrine-stimulated, psychosomatically-diseased, surgically-despoiled...