Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medical tycoon. Industrial "contract practice" is a form of health insurance which arose in isolated lumber camps and mining towns and is confined largely to lumber, mining and railroad industries. The contracting employer deducts a set sum* from each employe's wages, turns it over to a physician or hospital association. In return the physician or association agrees to furnish within stated limits all medical and surgical service to employes, except for injuries covered by workmen's compensation laws. More than 500,000 workers in 37 States are thus insured against the costs of sickness. Albert Wellington Bridge...
...Bridge's activities in the A. M. A. Journal, admitted that such schemes give some patients better care than they could otherwise get. But, said the Bureau, they also lead to solicitation, underbidding, inferior service. They squeeze out individual practitioners, leave the uninsured with no more choice of physician and fee than the insured have...
...said he had cast a few croutons on the political waters of the nation's capital. "In Washington," he testified, 'T entertained almost every night at my hotel various representatives of the Army and Navy, particularly Captain Joel Boone of the White House [President Coolidge's physician]. Captain Boone stood in good favor with the Press and Cabinet and leaders in political life, and for them to appear at our play (The Springboard, no success] at his suggestion would mean space in the newspapers...
WOODROW WILSON - Edith Gittings Reid - Oxford Press ($3.50). A friend's-eye-view by an old acquaintance, author of a popular biography of Sir William Osier, The Great Physician...
...sincere story in "Men in White," of the young interne's struggle against the physician's code loses little of its power on the screen. Although the problem of adaptation was made easier by the comparative unimportance of the love motive, able direction is chiefly responsible for its success...