Word: patient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well as healers, and last week the American Medical Association packed some 12,000 of its 170,000 members into Atlantic City, N.J. for its 108th annual meeting. Most distinguished of the 15,000 guests-mostly wives, nurses, medical students, vendors of drugs-was President (and grateful, well-recovered Patient) Dwight D. Eisenhower, who used the annual-dinner dais as a plate for another swing against inflation (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...wants to provide its services for a fee within the range of what people can reasonably pay. If the time ever comes when larger numbers of our citizens turn primarily to the Government for assistance in what ought to be and to remain a private arrangement between doctor and patient, then we shall all have suffered a tremendous loss...
...commission headed by North Dakota's Dr. Leonard W. Larson, chairman of the board of trustees, recommended last December that the A.M.A. relax its opposition to the practice of medicine by closed panels and groups.* Instead, it should concentrate on the quality of the care given, and the patient's freedom to choose between an independent physician and a panel. Surprisingly, the House of Delegates approved the Larson report last week with no debate...
...A.M.A.'s public posture, it did not change the minds of some A.M.A. bigwigs. Los Angeles' Dr. E. Vincent Askey, newly chosen presidentelect (to take office in 1960, succeeding Florida's Dr. Louis M. Orr), insisted after the vote that just as inviolable as the patient's right to choose his physician is his right to reject one. To Dr. Askey, the freedom to choose a closed panel is no freedom...
...move has been made to change Italian law in line with the ringing declaration of the 1956 congress. And that congress recommended dropping the word "leper" because of its incrustation of moral connotations, substituting "leprosy victim" or "leprosy patient." But Italian officialdom has changed in neither word nor deed: Marcello Orano, hero of 1941, is in 1959 nothing but a leper...