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After it was over, Britain's Lord Taylor, a bluff Labor Party peer and an architect of the British National Health Service, last week gave Saskatchewan a doctor's order. "This province has had a major operation," said he. "I prescribe for it absolute rest." The major operation was the settlement of the bitter, 22-day strike of Saskatchewan's doctors, who closed their offices rather than practice under the Socialist government's new compulsory medical insurance scheme...
...government won the doctors' agreement to North America's first comprehensive, tax-supported state medical insurance plan. But by their stubborn fight, the doctors won modifications in the plan removing what they had feared as political controls over the practice of medicine. In the key concessions, Saskatchewan's Premier Woodrow Lloyd made clear that the doctors could practice inside or outside the scheme, agreed to let the province's two major doctor-operated voluntary insurance plans continue in business, and expanded the doctors' representation on the medicare plan's governing commission...
...weary Taylor hailed the agreement as a model for what he hopes will come to the rest of Canada and the U.S.-and, following his own prescription for a rest, headed off to fish in the seclusion of northern Saskatchewan...
...Those who think the Saskatchewan doctors [July 13] wrong in striking are those who think that, in the final analysis, the doctor has no right to determine the conditions un der which he will practice medicine...
...sweeping lawns of the Capitol in Regina, 5,000 demonstrators mobilized by a Keep Our Doctors committee gathered to urge Premier Lloyd to withdraw his plan, and to sit down with doctors to negotiate a new one. For the moment, no one in the province lacked emergency care. Of Saskatchewan's normal strength of 900 doctors, 336 were still on duty, including 189 who are manning free emergency clinics set up by the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Arthur Kelly, general secretary of the Canadian Medical Association, warned that the impasse might continue "for a considerable time...