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...history. He confers with the fellow and checks his findings before reporting to the patient. He is never hurried. Countless Mayo patients report gratefully: "This is the first time I've seen a doctor who was willing to listen, and then talk and explain things." Although Mayo's uses the most modern business-machine methods for handling data, it succeeds, far better than most big-city hospitals, better even than many private physicians, in maintaining a warm and intensely personal patient-doctor relationship...
...major objection to panel practice is that the traditional, one-to-one patient-doctor relationship may be weakened. Yet, says Atlanta's Dr. Arthur P. Richardson, a doctor in a group can have just as much interest in his patients as any other: "The corner grocery store is gone, but people in supermarkets can be friendly too." Says Dr. Joseph C. Hinsey, director of the giant New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center: "Group practice is the most efficient type in the long run." New York University's Dr. Howard A. Rusk goes farther: "Solo practice is outdated...
Though psychiatrists, true to medical ethics and the confidential patient-doctor relationship, refused to tell precisely what ailed Marilyn, it was no secret that she had long been in psychoanalysis. It was easy to see how, while her personality was being disassembled and reconstructed, the strain of recent events could have become too great...
...Patients are free to use the plan or not as they choose. They can pick their own doctor. Doctors are free to accept or reject a patient, and they are able to determine the kind and extent of treatment they will use. Doctors do not become government employees nor are patients compelled to go to any doctor they do not wish to. Administration will be as decentralized as possible with local groups composed of lay and medical personnel taking care of the bulk of it. Patient-doctor relationships will be unaltered. The major change from the private medical system will...
...A.M.A. insists that all medical prepayment plans should be controlled by medical men (i.e., medical associations), to preserve the traditional patient-doctor relationship (including, say critics, the right of well-established physicians to charge as much as their consciences allow...