Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thank you for an extremely fair and well-considered Essay on doctors [May 13]. The modern, medically intelligent patient understands that a physician's technologic skill is largely replacing the helpless sympathy of bygone days. The future success of the doctor-patient relationship depends on the patient's understanding of the many difficulties and uncertainties the physician faces, and upon the physician's welcoming the patient into understanding and participation in the care and cure of his own illness...
...physician's average income-$28,380 for a 60-70-hour week-would be $18,000 for a 40-hour week. He must pay $1,200 a year for malpractice and income-protection (against illness) insurance. His hospitalization insurance, retirement and term insurance are not subsidized. Parking fees, upkeep of an expensive professional library, subscriptions, memberships in professional societies (often necessary to get hospital privileges), donations to hospital funds and the house staff, membership in specialty organizations, though tax deductible, cost him $800 a year net. He spends $600 for two weeks of postgraduate education a year. During such...
...they needed, they developed a miniaturized slow-speed tape recorder that could be worn by a man to record his electrocardiogram for ten hours. It was they who had the ingenious idea of playing back the electrocardiographic complexes on an oscilloscope screen like a moving picture. This enabled the physician to scan ten hours of data in ten minutes, and made it feasible to utilize the great volume of electrocardiographic information that their recorder obtains. Holter has become a vice chancellor of the University of California at the La Jolla campus. Glasscock carries on at the Holter Research Foundation...
...turned off and the heart allowed to stop, is far more than a legal problem. It involves the doctor as deeply as it does the patient or his anguished kin. Trained from his first day in medical school that his duty is to save and prolong life, the physician may not only resort to extraordinary measures, but he may continue them even after a flat EEG line (meaning no electrical activity in the brain) has persisted so long that there can be no real hope of recovery...
...work without pay for at least two months in the republic's pathetically few and ill-equipped general hospitals. Their patients are the 15.5 million civilians for whom there is, in effect, only one Vietnamese doctor available for every 50,000-well over 50 times worse than the physician-patient ratio...