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...neared 50, large and lusty Writer Paul de Kruif felt his considerable powers waning. His customary four-mile trot along a Lake Michigan beach slowed down to a walk. Three or four hours with the double-bitted ax and cross-cut saw were all he could stand. He tired easily, slept fitfully, found himself a prey to causeless fears...
Most socialized medicine enthusiasts, and a lot of people who never heard of socialized medicine, will read Paul de Kruif's Kaiser Wakes the Doctors (Harcourt, Brace; $2), out this week. Its 158 pages are an enthusiastic popularized account of the prepaid group medical care Shipbuilder Henry Kaiser and Dr. Sidney Garfield established for Kaiser workers. Throughout the book, De Kruif is an unabashed St. Paul, exhorting readers to faith, hope & charity for the new group medical revelation. Writes De Kruif: "Henry Kaiser stirred me to drop all else. . . to tell America this story...
...They Stopped Dying." With a convert's zeal, De Kruif lists the selling points for prepaid group medical practice...
Medical Historian Paul de Kruif called it a "grand shambles of an experiment," remarked that it unquestionably accomplished "the greatest good for the greatest number." Foot-&-mouth disease has scourged Europe for centuries; in the U.S. it is now nonexistent, thanks to John Mohler, who rocked comfortably on his Washington porch this week, unmedaled, unsung and content...
...conservative New England Journal of Medicine recently jumped on "the erroneous conception that malaria can be eradicated by means of a five-day treatment with the synthetic drug, atabrine." Attacking an article ("Enter Atabrine-Exit Malaria") written by Paul de Kruif in the Reader's Digest, the Journal pointed out that there is as yet no sure cure for malaria, that the disease and its problems are anything but simple...