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3E0RGE S. BENSON
ctldent-Jiarding College
Searcy, Arkansas
MY DOCTOR
Last spring a woman of cul
ture left her home in one of
America’s principal cities to spend
six months in Arkansas. Soon
after her arrival she came down
with a common ailment and
needed a surgeon. Her new
neighbors almost failed to con
vince her that the village doc
tor was safe to consult. She ask-!
ed: “If he’s so wonderful what’s
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he doing here? A good doctor
can make a lot of money in a
city.”
She was right on one point.
This doctor could make a ot of
money in a city. He has not fared
poorly where he is, but he never
will be rich. He is not so much
interested in money, however, as
in a certain kind of success that’s
not measurable in dollars. He has
a priceless estate of human lives.
He can’t leave his house without1
meeting people who owe their
• very existence to his skill.
A RICH ESTATE
This country doctor has the un
feigned love of his neighbors. His
work has their unqualified ap-;
proval, but that’s only part of
the story. He likes them too. No-1
body suffers for medical atention
where he lives. “He gets paid for
it” do you say? Yes, he collects
from about half of his patients.
But the humblest sharecropper
can have the best doctor he ever
heard of, and never see a bill.
Writing this, I have a particu
lar physician in mind, but I’m I
satisfied you are thinking about
another doctor as you read it.
There is one in just about every
country town; two or three in
big places. America still has
plenty of neighborhoods where
men grow up and live to a ripe
^r- —~~r~ '1 :
old age at one address. These are
the spots where a doctor is a real
person, not just a service.
THE CASE HISTORY
Knowing the people of his
| neighborhood is worth a great
deal to a physician’s success. Even
a specialist who treats strangers
almost exclusively, will agree
that a patient’s history is more
helpful to the doctor than an ex
aminaion. That’s why I don’t
want to swap doctors with you,
! and I hope you feel the same
way. Together, we can save this
country from the political curse i
of socialized medicine.
j A firm protest trom the forks!
of the creek, mountain coves ^nd |
farming towns can keep the Wag-!
ner National Health Bill, now de
! composing in a pigeon-hole of aj
j Senate sub-committee, from everj
coming to life. It was introduced i
with small hope of passage its
i chief purpose perhaps was to
| raise the issue and start people
i talking about medical service as
something to be standardized and
i rationed.
I CERTAIN TO LOSE
I My doctor is a busy man. He
works more nearly 16 hours a day
, than eight. A standardized work
j ing week of, say, 40 hours for
! him would make two new doctors
in our neighborhood necessary,
i Of course both new men would
I have to study the community’s
j health record, have to be as well
schooled as the older doctor and
have to receive suitable salaries.
It would be a bad deal three
ways:
(1) Some of my doctor’s pat
ients would have to accept treat
ment from a man with all to learn
about them. (2) Since three men
cost more to maintain than one,
all of us would spend more mon
ey for medical aid. (3) My good
doctor wouldn’t be busy. The
work he loves (his estate of lives)
would be taken away from him.
I figure his agile mind would
turn to something else, and that
he’d quit being a doctor at all.
NEVADA BAR
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HOSPITALS
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WASHINGTON, D. C.—Mili
tary and civilian hospital vitally
need at least 5,400 more volun
teer dietitian’s aides to help main
tain meal service for patients
! during the wartime shortage of
; help, Basil O’Connor, chairman
of the American Red Cross, has
been informed.
Four hundred and fifteen hos
! pitals over the country already
; are using the services of 4,682
aides trained by Red Cross since
j it established the Volunteer Diet
titian’s Aide Corps in April, 1943,
| Chairman O’Connor stated.
i Dietitian’s aides prepare food
1 in hospital kitchens, set up trays,
and check equipment, under su
pervision by graduate dietitians.
Housewives make valuable re
cruits, according to Mrs. Graham
Dougherty, assistant national di
rector of Red Cross Volunteer
Special Services in charge of the
Volunteer Dietitian’s Aide Corps.
Volunteers apply at their local
Red Cross chapter.
The American Dietetic Associa
tion is cooperating with Red
Cross in this war emergency
project.
The Rocky mountains were
once called the Stone mountains.
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SKIPPER COMPELLED
TO WASH OWN CLOTHES
Captain Alexander V. Frasfer,
first Commandant of the United
States Coast Guard, was compel
led to wash his own clothes on
the cutter Lawrence because he
could not afford to pay prevail
\ ing prices in San Francisco dur
ing the Gold Rush.
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