Word: medicaler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nor was this all that his predecessors might have envied George VI. They loved pomp and he has lords in waiting, grooms in waiting, gentlemen ushers, pages of honor, equerries in waiting, gentlemen-at-arms, yeomen of the guard, ladies of the bedchamber all about his palace; time has increased...
A successful surgeon with his own private practice is Professor Bertram Bernheim of Johns Hopkins. But he does not have much faith in the U. S. system of private medical care. He sees the public asking for more adequate, low-cost medical service, sees national health insurance coming, and he...
This week in a startling book, Medicine At the Crossroads,† with a warp of drastic criticism and a moderate woof of diplomacy, Dr. Bernheim ripped into the medical profession. Considering himself a "terrible old reactionary," he offered plans for medicine's modernization. Among his suggestions:
Horse & Buggy Practice. So rapid has been the scientific progress of medicine that a great number of physicians are practicing "horse and buggy" medicine according to the rules of the past generation at the expense of "the defenceless sick." Dr. Bernheim's remedy: medical licenses should be granted not...
Eventually, thinks Dr. Bernheim, all doctors will band together and practice in clinics, and this streamlined system of medical care will in itself bring greater specialization and raise the quality of service. Once this great step is taken, he believes it will make little difference in a doctor's...