Word: medicaler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S reporting of the New York County Medical Society's meetings (TIME, March 27) was anything but factual. TIME stated that "for months [Dr. Kopetzky] has been denouncing the National Health Program as 'a foreign importation,' " when as a matter of fact Dr. Kopetzky has...
Furthermore, TIME stated that Dr. Kopetzky argued "If doctors were salaried . . . they would not render good medical care, for the desire for money is the greatest incentive in medical practice."
In an informal talk on "American Medicine: Today and Tomorrow" in the Lowell House Common Room last night, Dr. Hugh Cabot of the Mayo Clinic urged that the cost of medical care be reduced by extending "group medicine."
He said that a large number of Americans don't receive adequate medical attention: "Medicine has become so complicated and so involved that specialization with all of its expenses has greatly increased." The average individual would have to pay $75 for a proper year's care, which runs close to...
A leader in his profession and a specialist at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Cabot criticized those doctors who have objected to group medicine. "The American Medical Association dreads a change in the routine to which over a long number of years they have grown accustomed.