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...article's author is Thomas Stowell, a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, who in his youth studied under Sir William Gull, physician to Queen Victoria. Another of Gull's patients, writes Stowell, was Jack the Ripper. Although Stowell refers to the killer as "S" throughout the article, he drops enough clues to leave little doubt as to the madman's identity...
...usually takes at least eight years before a U.S. college graduate can practice medicine on his own. As a result, the world's best medical training has a serious flaw: the U.S. has only one physician for every 650 people, compared with the Soviet ratio of one to 400 and the Italian figure of one to 580. One out of 50 Americans has no access to a doctor under any circumstances. To cure the shortage, the nation's chief health officer, Dr. Roger Egeberg, prescribes an immediate injection of 50,000 new physicians -a 15% increase in those...
...mere ripple in comparison with mounting waves of problems to be faced when the financial barriers to health care are lowered." To meet a demand for ever more doctors, it urges medical schools to update the Flexner plan and to adopt a program that it says could fill the physician gap by 1980. Among its recommendations...
...fresh and growing trend, more than 40 training programs for doctors' assistants are under way across the country. The graduates, already numbering in the hundreds, are tagged with clumsy names-paramedic, clinical associate, health practitioner. They all relieve doctors of time-consuming jobs like preliminary diagnostic tests. The physician then reviews the findings and decides treatment for a dozen patients in the same time he might otherwise spend personally diagnosing a single patient...
...health to bacteriology and psychosomatic medicine, plus techniques such as regulating intravenous infusions and operating respirators. As a recent Duke graduate put it: "It's not all flashing scalpels and white coats, but you can pack a lot of medicine into two years." Duke is training 40 future physician assistants a year, most of them ex-medical corpsmen. A dozen Duke graduates have already helped to set up similar programs at other medical schools. For every graduate, there are five or six job offers-most paying $10,000 a year or more...