Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plan's increased use of non-hospital medical care. The real burden of medical expenses falls on hospitalized patients. The Health Plan will try to do as much out-patient and ambulatory treatment as it can to dodge the high hospital rates...
...plan's reliance on group treatment instead of the traditional family-doctor technique. A core of specialists will man the center and treat Health Plan patients...
...practice. Ten years ago, a subcommittee of the AMA denounced the trend towards creeping groupism as a danger as great as "socialized medicine." But the group mode has won reputability since then; and more important, it has shown in practice that it is far more efficient than single-doctor treatment...
Gentle Rhythm. Patience, understanding and the gentle rhythm of life have been almost the only real treatment at Geel. Now Matheussen is planning to set up several neighborhood treatment centers where patients will meet regularly for group therapy, schooling and vocational training. This additional therapy may be crucial to Geel's survival because modern life is at last changing the town's stable, close-knit medieval patterns. Factory jobs are replacing the farm work that is suitable for many patients. Trucks and cars thunder through the square, their drivers not accustomed to watching for dazed people who forget...
...these intensive-treatment neighborhood centers may mean that more patients will recover, so that families will be required to surrender their charges. That will present Matheussen with a special problem of diplomacy, since many do not want to let their boarders go. "Families adjust," he sighs. "They get attached to their patients...