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Word: hospitaler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the U. S. today are about 110 voluntary health-insurance groups, which render services to some 2,150,000 members at a low annual rate. Most of those providing complete medical care are privately owned clinics established by doctors, such as the highly successful Ross-Loos Clinic in Los...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cooperative Doctor | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

First cooperative hospital ever set up in the U. S., Community Hospital owes its existence to a swarthy, fiery little Syrian, Dr. Michael Abraham Shadid. Dr. Shadid is recognized as a powerful, if retiring, figure among radical U. S. medical men. This week Dr. Shadid, now 57, published his autobiography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cooperative Doctor | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Infectious Idea. In 1928, popular, respected Dr. Shadid was dissatisfied. He was "bitten by some filtrable virus and turned into a reformer." The farmers of southwestern Oklahoma had no hospital they could afford to use. They paid exorbitant prices for medical care, were often cheated by unscrupulous doctors. Casting about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cooperative Doctor | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

After a year's study, Dr. Shadid called a meeting of his farmer patients, asked them to subscribe $50 each for stock in an association which would build a clinic and hospital in Elk City. Said he: "In western Oklahoma we do not have a single specialist in urology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cooperative Doctor | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

The powerful Oklahoma Farmers' Union backed the plan, and in August 1931 the Community Health Association, Inc. formally opened a trim, two-story brick hospital.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cooperative Doctor | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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