Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1930, Page 6

A—0 o GHANGED ATTITUDE URGED FOR DOCTORS Secretary Wilbur Addresses Committee on Cost of Medical Care. ‘The medical profession in this coun- w needs a new attitude. ‘And along this line the public and iclans must come to accept the "ln- ent plan” of paying for medi- care. ‘These and a great many other things learned by the Committee on of Medical Care, a Nation- wide research organization, spending five years and hundreds of thousands| of dollars in study and unveiling of facts | in a multitude ol medical situations out the country. The commit- u- just_closed m semi-annual meeting | e Mayflower Hotel yesterd: nd | 1-ued two Teports, covering the points of the first three years' work. The need for a —~ew attitude was| vouched for by Secretary of the Interior | Ray Lyman Wilbur, himself a doctor of medlclne and chairman of the com- Jul! what the new attitude will ve, however, remains for the committee to nnd out, Dr. Wilbur told the members the committee the‘ lun:;le:n con- chdmc the semi-annual me A suggestion the subject nt the new attitude was contained in one of the npom It pictured the doctor of ffering too much of an “indi- vfiull" professional service instead of the service of the medical pro~ fession as a whole for the treatment of the patients’ ills. Becretary Wilbur _in a short talk to the doctors formfng ‘the committee stressed the need of the medical pro- t-um readjusting its _attitude to conditions of modern life o place in the shift of & ploneer Nation, chiefly The . should be a man’s first choice for Thanksgiving dressing! of of the mittee concerns itsel wlua the short- o! flw practice of medicine today, the second concerns itself with l,he dlfllculun of both the practi- tioner and the uem from an eco- nomic point of vie From the hotptul orderly to '.hn pecializing physician there are, flnt report states, approximately 1, .':00 - 000 persons engaged on a full-time basis in caring for the iick and in the pro- mutlen of health in the United States. past 20 years the number of huplnh has increased from 4,300 to 7,000, with & total capacity of approxi- mltely 850,000, while “out-) ent” clinics have grown from fewer than 100 to well over 6,000. ‘The report pictures “the growing ten- dency of governmental agencies to par- ticipate not only in the prevention of disease but also in its treatment.” It continued with the finding that “a considerable proportion of the le nl the United States are from a multitude of preventable delecu minor allments and disabling di because of the lack of an effective amount or quality of service for pre- vention or treatment.” Further, the report states, “the prac- tice of medicine remains fundamentally an individualistic professional service. mre has {rlflull!y evolved for the ing the people of this Ration. m health an incomplete and unorganized collection of agencies and services. ‘Among the conspicuious weaknesses,” t.lu report states, “is an inability, or sometimes an unwillingness, of many me to .pay the costs of any or all|ani cal service, that they need. In addition there are an uneven distribu- tion of prlv-u practitioners and hos- some communities & fllcmge and inaccessibility of both, an unevenness, to some degree inevitable, but nevertheless disadvantageous, in the distribution of work among the practi- tioners of a single community and a lack of adequate equipment and institu- tions for their use and annoyance and expense encountered by patients with obscure disorders, cue to the necessity com- | “this running about from doctor to iseases | eral public for patent proprietary mi edi- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, of visiting _several pncfltlmm and luboratories before an adequate lh& nosis is made or & course of therapeul treatment decided upon.” “Running About” Deplored. Emphasis is placed in the report on doctor by patients until either their money is exhausted and their ailment uncured or until they finally, at Vll‘ expense and with the nmonmun'e vast amounts ol cnn hlt Lhe rlgli: man or right treatment of their Lastly, the report assails thz medical | gy profession for “failure to utilize pre- ventive measures.” th implied cfltlclsm of the situa- tion, the m are 143000 doctors of “While medicine in active practice, there are 32,000 other persons assuming full re- sponsibility for the general care of t.he sick. ‘These (32,000) include chiroj tors, osteopaths, mtumpcm.undc r - tian Science practitiont A large wfllm of the chlldmrfhl are ltunded 55,000 midwives of the United States, some of whom have had no adequate A large proportion of the self-treatment for 000 is expended annually by the lcnv cine. ‘The first report was submitted by three nationally prominent doctors, members of the committee—Dr. Hlvm Emerson of New York, Dr. Walter P. Bowers of Boston and Dr. George E. Follansbee of Cleveland. The second report deals with aca- | demic questions, mostly relating to the questions of how the doctor can be adequately paid for his services and how the patient can provide that pay- men ent. summed up, the question propounded | rtially tmvered in the second repc is “Wha ctica. plans can be | ;ppued to ml comprehensively with | economic problem of sickness?” =~ | s n is difficult, the report states, for| the family to provide for so intangible | a thing as sickness whe in health; to put money aside when it is not ) nown what the sickness will be nor the cost| of its treatment. The second report was presented lv Michael M. Davis, director for medical services of the Julius Rosenwald Pund, Chicago; Dr. Walter R. Steiner of ford, Conn., and Prof. Walton H. Hamfl- M ‘of the Yale Law School. wing “the almost revolutionary in variety, compl-xity and cost of medical service,” the great increase in “the sum total of capital investment | as required for private practice,” as well as institutional service, the onclusion is that in “this ‘Nation as a whole prob- lblymorekmmlordruuwdwpn- plex ances than for physi ians.” But, the report says, “sickness falls very unevenly upon individuals and families during any given period. This unevenness is - {llustrated by evidence | c! from & number of studies that in any given ‘more than half the total Jm\ iture for the care of sickness u barely one-sixth of the fami- Nes. cannot be told whether during any given year an individual or family will have any iliness or whether such| an iliness &s occurs will be minor or grave in its threat to life, health and the pockethou . suggestions that have been The Lowest Priced CaeaEver ited with a F 7.7 Lens BESSA - ROLL FILM CAMERA It is fitted with the luper!o Voigt- lander F 7.7 astigmat - - nnvag focusing mount with adjustable lens easy. has ever been offered in such an in- made for solution of the economic lmofdémeuhlnmmfinwm basis of what the report consi chief economic problems lfl the pulenl condition of medical service, "l m problem ‘of - simpli through educational measures, thi organization, or both, the array of varied m and agents so that the consumer’s un- doubtedly Increasing demand for com- petenit care in sickness shall lead to more afleeun and “2. e problem of enabling the or- dinary family to gfl)‘llde against an un- certain financial burden, which may be very large in proportion to the family | budget, and which is likely to be very | uneven month by month and year by yeeo.” ‘The report cites in the fleld of “in- stallment payment” for medical serv- ices the action of some business agen- cles which are endeavoring to extend New Imported '10< lens in & new A simple distance and_group ‘adjuster makes focusing changes ‘This is the first time this lens expensive camera. 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