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...Electra north and west, away from her destination. By calculating the Electra's speed and fuel consumption, Goerner figures that the plane must have crash-landed near the beach of Mili atoll in the southeastern Marshall Islands. It was from that place, he says, that Earhart cranked out SOS messages on the plane's emergency radio. This, Goerner believes, accounts for the fact that a number of radio operators reported picking up messages from the downed plane at about this time...
There is no danger to their practice since SOS doctors are forbid den to see the patient in daylight hours. Instead, they charge a flat $10 per call plus the cost of medicine, then write a letter to the patient's regular doctor the next morning, informing him of the treatment given. It is all working so well that a group of Rome doctors has already arrived in Paris to study the procedure...
...first three weeks, an average of 20 emergencies a night have been handled by the five doctors on patrol, and the public loudly approves the new setup. Other Parisian doctors are as delighted as the emergency patients. The SOS service allows them to choose to stay home even if a personal patient is stricken...
...only ones to find any fault at all are the medical societies. Since S O S is an advertised service, the societies claim that the doctors involved are practicing medicine commercially. The doctors respond that they are treating patients who otherwise are ignored. As for the commercialism charge, the SOS doctors are trying to sidestep it by keeping their names secret...
...press are outspokenly on their side, and last week the prestigious French Conseil de L'Ordre Na tional des Médecins was showing signs of bending to popular pressure. Though the Conseil had first threatened to block the whole operation, it now seems willing to give the SOS doctors official sanction as a registered group. To pleased Parisians, that meant that emergency night medical aid would remain just a phone call away...