Word: kruif
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advocate than Shipbuilder Henry Kaiser. He has built the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan into a 475,000-member concern with 507 doctors and twelve hospitals (TIME, June 29, 1953). And for a long time the Kaiser plan had no more high-pressure booster than Author Paul (Microbe Hunters) de Kruif, the nation's best-known writer on medical subjects. Twelve years ago, no superlative was too sweeping for De Kruif's praise of scientific and efficient group practice as against individual care by the old-fashioned family doctor. The old way, said De Kruif (a Ph.D. in bacteriology...
Last week Writer de Kruif recanted. In GP, published by the American Academy of General Practice, he violently attacked group practice in general, and the Kaiser plan in particular. Wrote De Kruif: "[I was] sold a bill of goods, that the ancient, close, personal relation between doctors and their patients-that's the pride and the unique distinction of family physicians-was no longer necessary . . . The good old family doctor? He'd soon be a relic, replaced by integrated groups of specialists, all streamlined under an ultramodern hospital roof . . . It dazzled me to watch the plan...
...least one member of De Kruif's family disagrees. His son David, 35, has been a Kaiser doctor since his residency six years ago in Oakland's Permanente Foundation Hospital. A heart specialist, he is now one of a doctor group which runs a clinic under Kaiser contract in San Leandro...
...moment was a thought theatrical. Yet, as C. W. Ceram shows in Gods, Graves & Scholars, in archeology, the theatrical climax is commonplace. Ceram, a West German book editor who has made archeology his hobby, set out to do for his subject what Paul de Kruif did long ago for bacteriology in Microbe Hunters. The result is a highly readable series of biographical profiles: of the Frenchman, Jean François Champollion, who unriddled the ancient babble of the Rosetta Stone; of Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, who dug up King Tut, and of several more. The biographical sketches carry...