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...when he was Governor of New York, Franklin Delano Roosevelt suddenly found himself in need of a State Commissioner of Health. After surveying the field he called to Albany an aggressive, tweed) Marylander named Thomas Parran Jr. Dr. Parran at the time was an assistant Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service. In 1933 Franklin Roosevelt went to Washington as President. There this year he again found himself in need of a health commissioner, this time for the entire nation, when Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming, 66, resigned. Last week President Roosevelt called Dr. Parran back to Washington...
Middle-aged U. S. doctors were generally opposed to Dr. Parran's appointment. They were educated, trained and licensed to earn their living from fees which their patients paid them. Now a large part of the population can no longer afford to pay any doctor bills whatsoever. To get around that economic difficulty doctors have invented several hundred prepay and partial-pay schemes, including $10-a-year hospitalization insurance (see p. 50). Dr. Parran does not believe such systems will solve the problem of patientless doctors and doctorless patients. He wants socialized medicine, with free drugs and hospital service...
Because it was politically unfocused, opposition to Dr. Parran as Surgeon General fizzled out, and the Senate last week quietly confirmed his appointment to a job which pays him $9,800 a year instead of the $12,000 a year he was getting while in Albany...
Leaving Albany is a pleasant inconvenience for Dr. Parran. The year Governor Roosevelt called him there he, a widower with four small sons, remarried, and took a big white farmhouse in the hills at Castleton, N. Y.. overlooking the Hudson, ten miles south of Albany. The grounds include a pear and apple orchard, the pruning of which he made one of his hobbies. Other diversions: hunting, riding, training red setters, splitting firewood, baking waffles to eat with Maryland scrapple. Sunday the whole family decorously went to mass in the Roman Catholic Church of the village. After mass the whole...
...Albany, N. Y., State Health Commissioner Thomas Parran Jr. promptly endorsed Editor Fishbein's fulminations, darkly warned: "Alkalosis is just as deleterious to health as acidosis...