Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Near starvation, her face twisted in pain, seven-year-old Maria was brought to San Salvador's Hospital Benjamin Bloom just in time. While her mother, a poor Indian woman, waited outside, the doctors made an examination. Then Chief Surgeon Carlos Chamorro operated, removed an orange-sized ovarian tumor from the child...
Blue Shield paid the surgeon its fixed allowance of $100 for the appendectomy. The surgeon had contracted, when he signed up with Blue Shield, to give "service benefits" at its fixed rates to families with incomes of less than $2,500 a year. If the freight handler had earned more than $2,500, the surgeon could have charged more than $100, and the freight handler would have had to pay everything over...
...from being in the red are those receiving some tax support. H.R. 5940 offers medical schools $500 per student per year for five years plus an additional $500 for students over the average past enrollment. For the purchase of new equipment and limited expansion, the bill also provides the Surgeon General with a fund to distribute, as he sees fit, to the various schools. As the Association of American Medical Schools points out, this aid will barely maintain medical standards, let alone allow enlarging of the student body...
...payment to any one school is not to exceed 40 percent of the total instruction costs for any year and is not to pay for instruction in research projects or the cost of any hospital's operations. For the construction of new schools and improvement of existing ones, the Surgeon General's office will have an appropriation of five million dollars per year to spend as it sees fit so long as it gives no school more than 50 percent of the yearly cost of expanding or enlarging...
...statement drafted by its house of delegates at the December meeting in Washington, the AMA states, "--no grants or construction should be made until the needs of all the medical schools have been surveyed and balanced, until a long range program has been developed.--Vesting in the Surgeon General such full authority to award grants will open the door for political pressure and interference...