Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same slimy ponds they wash in, the disease spreads relentlessly from hut to hut, bringing with it its agonizing retching and diarrhea. In one week alone nearly 1,000 people died-yet India's government continues to be too little and too late with help. Said one bitter physician after ten hours with his vomiting patients: "We don't mind hard work if it is worthwhile. But after a time the epidemic will subside only to recur the same time next year, and the pattern it will follow will be identical and without any improvement...
...With one physician for every 612 people, Austria is one of the most carefully doctored countries in the world. But last week Vienna's 24 major hospitals (24,000 beds, usually full) turned away patients with such nonurgent complaints as gallstones and diseased tonsils. Reason: the 1,500 doctors who work full time for the hospitals were out on strike...
...year in health fees. For this considerable--and obligatory--fee (more than most of us would pay normally for medical care in a year), we have, we think, a right to expect from the Health Service at least the care we would get from a private physician. To us, this includes the right to have a doctor come to our bedside when we are in pain. Radcliffe does not agree. "Except," (and here we quote a physician at Stillman Infirmary) "except in cases of impending death," Health Center physicians do not make house calls. This seems to us barbarous...
...disagrees with the complaint that doctors' bills are out of control. Compared to the other costs, he argued last week in Medical Economics, medical expenses have actually dropped. Back in 1936, as Dr. King figures it, an electrician had to work 2½ hours to pay for a physician's daytime house call. In 1956 it took him only 1½ hours. To pay for an appendectomy in 1936, a plumber had to work 73½ hours v. a mere 44 in 1956. But the general practitioner who needed 1.28 house calls in 1936 to buy his wife...
...real gripe," says Minneapolis Physician George Riley Martin, who swapped his 1954 Chevy for a small Simca, "is that American cars are getting too complicated. They're too full of gadgets that are always going wrong. My windshield wipers kept breaking, and they practically had to tear out the dashboard to get at the things. You're getting fins and chrome, and every time that you bash a fender a little bit, the whole side of the car has to be replaced...