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...wages and benefits now take 70% of the budget of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, vs. 35% only 20 years ago. The introduction of expensive machinery raises rather than lowers labor costs. For example, if a hospital buys a CAT (computerized axial tomography) scanner, a kind of super X-ray machine, it must also hire highly trained, highly paid technicians...
...poor. In addition, it would give those unprotected by company or public plans a chance of buying insurance at a "reasonable" cost, although that figure has not yet been determined. This insurance, subsidized by the Government, would provide a "core benefit package," including hospital and physician services, X-ray and lab tests, and would also probably provide some kind of catastrophe coverage. Cost of the total Carter plan to the Government: $15 billion a year. Employees and employers would pay $5 billion...
...When the X-ray machine was introduced in 1896, it was as if Hamlet's desire that "this too too solid flesh would melt" had become eerie reality. Public and physicians alike went wild. Gentlemen bought X-ray photographs of objects concealed in boxes, and fashionable ladies had X-ray portraits taken of themselves as gifts for friends and lovers. But it was physicians who were most intoxicated with the new device's possibilities. Without manual probing, they could now evaluate the extent of bone fractures and precisely locate where foreign bodies were lodged in tissues...
...study pinpoints who should and who should not receive PUVA treatment," Robert S. Stern, instructor in Dermatology at the Medical School, said yesterday. We've shown that people with previous X-ray skin treatment or who have had skin tumors in the past are at a higher risk with the photochemotherapy treatment," Stern said...
...years the trend has been toward more tests. "Fearing malpractice suits, many physicians defensively order diagnostic tests simply to get them on the record even if they provide no information that will affect the patient's care. Also, with the introduction of expensive new diagnostic devices like computerized X-ray scanners, many doctors have come to equate good medicine with extensive use of such procedures...