Word: ramstad
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Many pathologists never see a live patient; instead, they peer through a microscope at an excised piece of him. Larson is too social-minded for that sort of remoteness. Hired in 1924 to work at the Quain & Ramstad Clinic in Bismarck, he was North Dakota's only private-practice pathologist. He made his professional mark in diagnosing tumors, but felt that "pathologists should get out of the basement and see patients and examine them if necessary. They should be real consultants." A.M.A. duties keep him away from Bismarck more and more, but Dr. Larson still takes pride...
Though Dr. Larson had been active in arranging scientific programs for his district society, it was less ambition than recruitment that started him on the way to A.M.A. leadership. A senior partner in Quain & Ramstad was the state medical society's legislative watchdog. When he retired, he put the arm on Larson. "I volunteered by means of appointment," says Larson. In the Bismarck statehouse, Dr. Larson learned the bitter way about politics: the M.D.s took a crushing defeat when they tried to keep out osteopaths and chiropractors by legislation...
...Larson sounded rigidly traditional in his attacks on King-Anderson last week, he is actually quite flexible on other issues in the provision of medical care. As a group practitioner, he naturally favors group practice, and Quain & Ramstad makes no bones about the fact that it pays salaries to 32 of its doctors, though it charges patients on a fee-for-service basis. Moreover, Dr. Larson believes that "if we're going to keep Government out of the practice of medicine, we're going to have to provide more coverage through prepayment plans-and, if possible, at lower...