Word: sackett
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...empty and unneeded. But medical research is only partially and indirectly responsible. There are just not enough people left who are unable to go to a private hospital or to choose their own doctors. "Medicare and medicaid have made obsolete the concept of charity medicine," says Dr. Andrew P. Sackett, Boston's Health and Hospitals Commissioner. The fact that City lies in Boston's oldest and most horrible slum somewhat obscures the meaning of this fact. There are people who do need a charity hospital; the small waiting room at City's admitting office is full of confused, bewildered, weary...
...said that the house officers had been guaranteed by Dr. Andrew P. Sackett, commissioner of public health, that Boston City Hospital's board of trustees would abide by the salary increases worked out by the Greater Boston Council...
...Sackett, he said, would not give them any details of the plan, but the house officers were able to get them "from other sources" before making their decision...