Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the doctor was first called, why did he refuse to make a house call? Did he take too long in making the right diagnosis? Did he prescribe too many drugs before he knew what the real trouble was? Did he pick the right surgeon to operate? Were all those lab tests necessary? Did the surgeon charge too much? Why does a hospital room cost $60 a day, more than the fanciest resort hotel room? Why doesn't insurance cover more of those bills...
...good as it could and should be. For 25%, care is either inexcusably bad, given in humiliating circumstances, or nonexistent. The breakdown is not simply by social stratum: the rich do not necessarily get the best care, nor the poor the worst. Says Dr. William H. Stewart, Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service: "If even one American doesn't have access to a reasonable level of care, there's something wrong. And when millions don't, there's obviously something wrong...
...that no doctor should offer lifetime care to a patient for a flat or annual fee, and thus rules out prepayment by an annual dues system. It means that when a patient goes into a hospital for an operation, he must pay the admitting doctor's bill, a separate surgeon's bill, a separate radiologist's bill for X rays and a separate anesthesiologist's bill...
...wrong places for the wrong reasons. Under the Hill-Burton Act of 1946, any hamlet could raise hospital of matching 20 to funds 30 to get beds ? itself and a too tiny many did. These are not only uneco nomic but bad for medicine, says New Orleans Surgeon Alton Ochsner: no hospital with fewer than 100 beds is medically viable, and he suggests that none should have more than...
...nation's cigarette manufacturers have been under increasing fire since the U.S. Surgeon General reported in 1964 that "cigarette smoking contributes substantially to mortality." The Surgeon General, the U.S. Public Health Service and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare have brought out steadily stronger reports, including evidence that the average heavy smoker dies eight years sooner than the nonsmoker. HEW began distributing pamphlets to schools, warning of the dangers of smoking. Congress in 1965 ordered that cigarette packs must carry the warning "Caution: Cigarette Smoking May Be Hazardous to Your Health." Twenty months ago, the Federal Communications Commission...