Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1930, Page 23

MEDICAL SERVICE * COST A “PROBLEM Hospital Conference Consid- ers Means of Benefiting Peo- ple of Moderate Means. Various forms of reducing and dis- tributing the cost of medical care for people of moderate means—including some form of health insurance—were considered at the hospital conference of the District of Columbia Medical So- clety yesterday affernoon. Sessions of the society were concluded last night. The discussion was led by Dr. A. C. Christic in reporting on the work of the committee on_the cost of medical care, headed by Dr. Ray Lyman Wil- bur, Secretary of the Interior and formare president of the American Medical Association, which i conduct- ing a 5-year study of the economic as- pects, of the care of the sick and the prevention of iliness. “The committee hopes that its study will point out a more satisfactory method of distributing the cost of medi- cal care of the people of moderate means, who, after all, constitute the bulk of ‘our’ population,” Dr. Christie said. Dr. Christie Cites “Real Problems.” Dr. Christie enumerated a number of steps that could be taken to lessen the cost of medical care, including more economic construction and management of hospitals, ridding the medical pro- fession of poorly qualified practitioners and reducing the number of persons who apply to uneducated cultists of various types. “The real problem,” he said, * to show the great mass of people of moderate incomes some method or methods by which they may pay_for what they are already receiving. futile to berate the medical profession for the sins of a few charlatans or gl‘ofiteers among them, or, on the other and, to blame the public because they pay more for the super-luxuries of the day than they do for medical care and for not saving money for sickness which they could not foresee. The committee, Dr. Christie said, is studying, among other measures, at- tempts now being made to apply the insurance principle to cover costs of medical care. Hospital Work Discussed. Dr. C. Rufus Rorem dealt with the problem from the viewpoint of capital investment in hospital and economic management. He suggested that a sur- charge or tax might be applied to pri- vate patients to take care of the deficit incurred from ward patients, especially as the former class, he said, utilizes more than its share of the capital in- vestment represented in the hospital. ‘With more than $3,000,000,000 invested in hospital buildings in the United States, he declared, it is a wonder. that more attention is not paid to the eco- nomic_side of management. Only about 1,000 hospitals out of 7,000 institutions are properly, or even partially, endowed, and most of these, he said, are in a gection 200 miles northeast of Wash- ington. _ a post-mortem had been performed upon George Washington at the time of his death, Dr. Walter A. Bloedorn de- ill be | 1t is | THE EVENING 'STAR, WASHINGTON. D. clared, there would not be now dis- putes, 150 years later, as to the exact cause of his death. Dr. Bloedorm urged that every means possible be used to increase the number of autopsies, so as to determine the cause of death. “The death autopsy ratio often is an index of the efficiency of a hospital,” he_said. Dr. Prank Leech pointed out that the Children's Hospital has very suc- cessfully followed a policy of allowing the medical staff to be represented on its governing board. This is the best policy, he believed, for all hospitals, since laymen cannot be expected to un- derstand scientific methods of manage- ment and treatment as can a physician, Dr. Benjamin F. Weems discussed the qualifications of physicians admitted to practice in hospitals and stressed that ethical conduct, as well as general med- ical training and fitness, should be re- quired from all who seek that privi lege. Group nursing as practiced at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in the opinion —of Miss Janet Pish, ‘does much to reduce hospital costs. She said she believed it represents a total saving of $11 dai per patfent and suggested that the method be established in Washington hospitals. Dr, Charles S. Cole, who discussed some of the problems and tendencies of nursing, denied that hospitals are ex- ploiting the student nurse. He explained that it ayeraged $1,600 a year to train a nurse and that this cost is more ex- |7 pensive than the hiring of graduate|? nurses. Dr. Oscar B. Hunter and Dr. H. W. Kearney also addretsed the meeting. ‘The former urged more care in the performing of post-mortems and de. nounced methods that amount to “‘des cration of the dead.” cussed efficient anesthetic service. Laymen Attend Conference. At the closing session last night, when Dr.. William Gerry Morgan, president- elect of the American Medical Associa- tion, presided, more than 300 laymen of the District were in attendance. Dr. James A. Gannon, speaking’ on the “Doctor and the High Cost of Liv- ing, dium means take their ills directly to. high-priced specialists, completely ig- noring the general practitioner who charges only a moderate fée and who is competent to treat fully 85 per cent of all cases. Herbert L. Willet of the Gorgas Memorial Foundation gave a | layman’s viewpoint on health examina- tions. Others who spoke were Dr. Jo- seph S. Wall, Dr. William J. Mallory, Dr. Wallace M. Yater and Dr. Edith Seville_Coale. WESTINGHOUSE ANS 8-inch non- oscillating 8-inch oscill. o reenee. , $12.75 Meinch ascillating $17 (A.C.orD.C)...... 12-inch o ting 327 (A.C.orD.C).. % MUDDIMAN § 911 G Street Natl Q140-2622 ® $5 A Sport-Shoe for’ the Junior Miss ESIGNED FOR SPECTATOR ORTS; DEVELOPED IN BLOND ELKSKIN WITH TAN TRIMMINGS ; LEATHER SOLE AND HEEL, $8. May Sale - - LING Dept. Junior Miss 3rd Floor ERIE $].98 Dr. Kearney dis- | 7 said that too many people of me-| WHISKY AIRWAY FOUND IN CHICAGO Ralph Capone to Be Questioned Concerning Knowledge of Air Smuggling. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 9.—The Tribune said today a whisky airway, whose high- speed planes have dropped more than $1,000,000 worth of Canadian liquor into Chicago territory in the last eight months, has been uncovered by Federal prohibition agents. Ralph Capone, brother of the better known Al, promised through his coun- sel to appear today at the Federal Building, where he was to be ques- | tioned concerning his knowledge of the air smuggling. Capone's two night clubs, the Cotton Club and the Greyhound Inn, both in Cicero, were raided early yegterday by Federal agents, but the estigation into smuggling of whisky by air has been going on several months. The purpose of the raids was explained as a4 move to get as many as possible of the Capone men under bond. . The Tribune understands that two planes, one a tri-motored cabin plane U valued at $60,000, the other & smaller machine, have been used in the traffic. Round trips between Windsor, Ontario, and Chicago were made six days a week, and the smuggling is said to have been going on since last August. The planes timed their arrival in Chicago at dusk, dropping down near Cicero, where trucks waited to carry away the whisky. NOVELIST’S SON HURT OWOSSO, Mich., May 9 (#).—James Oliver Curwood, 23, son of the late novelist, received a fractured skull and broken neck in an airplane accident at the Owosso airpert last night. Attend- g;u physicians said he probably would e, N > RS“ I When in ALEXANDRIA Visi AN “,\“""‘“S\W*.“‘ = S N SN N N\ N N S SN A\ — - E NN S— AN . 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