Word: hospitalers
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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.