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...expected that the total for the first twelve months will go to at least 35,000, possibly to 50,000. Even though as many as 15,000 of these operations this year may be performed in private hospitals and nursing homes, the rest are imposing a heavy burden on NHS gynecologists. They find themselves spending half their office hours passing judgment on patients seeking abortions and half their operating-room time performing them. This, say some gynecologists, is not the type of practice that they chose or for which they were trained...
...summary of research findings in the 1963 annual report of the NHS Corporation said that measures of students interests, perseverance, and drive were better predictors of achievement...
...Douglas inaugurated medical care for 50,000 of Saskatchewan's 925,000 people. The following year, the Douglas government launched Canada's first province-wide hospital insurance plan. The new medicare act is the capstone of Douglas' planning. A country cousin of Britain's NHS, it provides province-wide compulsory insurance covering payments for all medical, surgical and specialist treatment. Unlike the British plan, it does not cover dentistry, glasses or drugs. The cost, $22 million a year, is to be met by annual premiums ($12 for single people, $24 for families), and by increasing sales...
...doctors and patients now take NHS for granted. Explained a Glasgow doctor: "It's like the income tax-part of our way of life. We moan about it, but we can't imagine being without it." At St. Bartholomew's Hospital's first-rate Medical College in London, Dean D. F. Ellison Nash said: "We couldn't have kept up with diagnosis, treatment and medical care without a national service." A London painter: "It's not all that good, not for what you get out of it. But abolish it? Not that, mate...
...each prescription, 28? (average cost to NHS has risen since 1949 from 40? to $1.02); from $3.50 to $5.90 for spectacles; up to $2.80 for dental treatment for a single condition; up to $14 for a set of upper and lower dentures. No charges are made for children's eyeglasses or dentistry...