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Word: health (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Said Shapiro: "The new family phy sician will be a family counselor in sick ness and in health. He'll be trained in both the art and science of medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Plight of the U.S. Patient | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...takes several hours and several 200 bus fares for a woman to avail herself of them and, lacking a babysitter, she probably has to drag her other children along with her. The northern Bronx is largely white, Jewish and health-oriented; there, women go routinely to their private physicians for the same services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Plight of the U.S. Patient | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...challenged to take out the right kind of insurance, probably in his 20s or 30s, and certainly years before he expects to need it. Then he is challenged to find the right doctor. For none of these choices are there any reliable buyers' guides. At successive times in his health history, three major components of care?doctors, hospitals and insurance?will be simultaneously involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Plight of the U.S. Patient | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

Obviously, it is the doctor who should guide the patient through the bewildering health-care maze. Yet not enough U.S. doctors today are qualified to fill this role well, and the organization of the profession discourages it. With the discoveries of new and potent "wonder drugs"?insulin, the sulfas and antibiotics, new hormones and vaccines?each succeeding decade after the 1920s should have been a golden age of medicine. But medicine needed the understanding and compassion for the patient that had marked the old-style, unscientific family doctor. The American Medical Association, long the champion of improved medical practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Plight of the U.S. Patient | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...soared from about 145 employees per 100 patients to 260 per 100 in the past 20 years. With mounting labor costs, up go hospital room rates. Hospital administrators stand aghast at this; yet in all too many ways it is their own fault. Dr. Leona Baumgartner, a former health commissioner of New York City who is now at Harvard, can cite chapter and verse to show how hospitals have consistently lagged behind reality and then reacted in a "Who?me?" way. When the baby boom of the late 1940s was aborning, says Dr. Baumgartner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Plight of the U.S. Patient | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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