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...Balthazar figures that he can treat people for an average cost of about $1 per patient. He adds: "It costs the state more than that just to process a claim...
Wearing a pencil-thin Adolphe Menjou mustache, impeccably dressed in a dark blue suit and sporting a stickpin in his stylish striped cravat, Dr. Eugene Balthazar, 73, looks like Hollywood's image of a society doctor. But Balthazar's practice is not on Manhattan's Park Avenue or in some well-heeled suburb but in the decaying downtown area of Aurora, an industrial center (pop. 79,000) in northern Illinois. There, for at least 3½ days a week, Balthazar ministers to Aurora's poor-Mexicans, Appalachian whites, Indians and blacks. Indeed, anyone with real...
...more than 40 years Balthazar had practiced medicine in Aurora. Then in 1972, at the age of 70, he decided to retire. But instead of heading for the golf links of Florida or Arizona, he set up his free clinic. "I felt I had an obligation to the community," explains Balthazar, who had long been known as a doctor who let patients pay whenever and whatever they could. Besides, he says, such service is in the best tradition of medicine. "Oh, yes," he admits, "we have a very mercenary segment that displays the avariciousness and lack of humanitarianism...
...typical day, Balthazar may see as many as 100 patients. Aided only by a nurse, a receptionist and 25 part-time volunteers, he treats almost every conceivable ill-heart disturbances, abscessed ears, broken bones, malnutrition, and once even a case of leprosy...
Bresson's Au Hasard, Balthazar, plus a Griffith short, Thursday...