European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse I through on be Eye the Eres a tidal wave r More healthcare Aiton a staff writer tech Arad doctor in Lor theres Tram of demand or Tun mat tatter hip an across the i the wave uyt sur u will at nov i Many traditional of sup e nations Rodical manpower Tat Toat the health of 1u Jota be will Rise come new to the Hoo a of new first two of health new ways to to a time of of a serious of Aorta not Only of doctors and nurses Tat Aso and others pos of needed Accord though not Leaden in i win get before authorities in Many from Many starting july providing up of h or to increase de for heart cancer and spread of prepaid insurance for medical and Hospital some of the Finandal Belta Una to seek growth of comprehensive Community mental health already provided for under Federal and stale expansion of Are s Amft relm million americans a and now Many people know More Medicine they expect More and better March 1966 and possibly most significant in total numbers millions of neglected poor people Are being introduced to the Chance for better health on Home doctors drafted for military service to tend fighting men in Viet the last la was for More May be needed if the War of More men fall 111 of malaria or other diseases resistant to present Ted surge of demand is rising to test american which in Many respects is Ike Best in the at its highest u is without but already it has soft for the United states has been importing doctors one i six doctors licensed each year was graduated from foreign medical school doctors Are not always available in they Are in Short Supply or lacking in some Small towns and Rural commune most hospitals Lack 10 to 25 per cent of the nurses for whom they have doctors Are not All of equal skill and any More than persons in any new new techniques flowing rapidly from re search impose continuing education or else slippage of a physicians medical even to the pout of of what Many is new life saving knowledge if it is not applied millions of poor people do not receive Good despite free despite donations of time by dedicated a and there Are inevitable strains be cause the doctor after a human being like his every patient has some personal sex and frequent about physicians or l kept my Finger on that Buzzer and u was m minutes before that nurse Ever showed the doctor completely missed the diagnosis it turned out my Mother had you should see the Bill 1 got perhaps theres no nope of resolving All Setch problems Between patient and doctor or others giving health care to a lady Waal we wont crack some of the prob lems until the Public demands that it be says Michael noted heart and the Public is not aware of the our is How to step into the 20th Century in some re adds Raymond act ing Dean of Baylor University medical school in there is no dearth of suggestions and proposals to remedy prob lems and to improve medical and health a great says John administrator of Massachusetts general Hospital in is that everyone is feeling just part of the ele no one feels much commitment outside the area of his own u opens of reasons Are advanced As causes of today shortage of doctors and health the diagnosis two elements that have made american Medicine very Good Medicine one is its stemming partly from very High standards of medical school most observers Point but this has limited the with Only about new doctors being graduated annually from another is Brilliant Progress from re search new new surgical and medical and rehabilitation All making the physician More effective than in the old sugar Pill and sympathy Days of today doctors can do As in open heart a whole team of arses and other skilled people May become involved for one patient at a a cardiologist estimates heart attack who now die soon after their could be saved each year if major hospitals All had intensive care but each unit requires a 24hour no one wants to sacrifice research but medical research draws Doc tors from the total medical Many go into research for Nice 9 to 5 leaving fewer physicians on the firing line seeing says one Busy new York City right Only 03 out of every 100 doctors Are engaged in private each Young american men and women Are turned Down in their applications to enter medical schools 88 of them there Are five schools of osteopathic t least 13 new medical schools Are being but it takes 10 years and million or More from initial plans for a school to the first graduating and medical education is costly to Over four Many rejected students have been going to foreign but some of those schools Are now closing their doors to americans trained abroad Are estimated to comprise about on Quarter of the newly licensed doctors each year who studied outside the United states and spokesmen for the american medical Long a Leader for High Quality in insist it has strongly championed More medical but critics of the Ama declare the main Battle for More schools was waged by including the association of american medical the Ama gradually abandoned its leadership in Medicine in its fight against socialized now theres a vacuum of says one like often tend to resist Debakey notes that professional organizations tend to become rigid and staunchly defend their health is it still necessary to train All medi Cal students alike he present Laws virtually require this to obtain his the physician must pass examinations measuring his knowledge in Many areas of but is it really necessary for an ophthalmologist to know How Many Bones there Are in the foot he the whole system is archaic in Many aspects of training students and in re Quiring traditional another medical educator numerous medical schools Are re examining and with their to streamline make it More a few Are experimenting with com pressing four years of College and four of medical school into six years for picked and report this approach looks the majority of doctors never go Back to school for refresher and Are practising today Medicine with yesterdays tools and declared Albert of the University of Minnesota medical while there Are numerous methods for continuing the Guy who needs the message most Doest come to said David Barken of the manpower shortage includes Pedi patricians and medical school faculty nearly positions Are listed As medical social workers and Hospital xray orderlies and Many Low pay often is girls can earn higher in most As stenographers than As registered some Imit of Hospital workers Are notoriously said and you cant feed the poor sawdust and expect them to protect your birth and As applies to some big you have shabby surroundings for people to work you wind up with shabby and not Many of to Etudes have Knowles How would you like to be called paramedical usually meaning any one without an degree people in the health professions need to be treated As firs class with with with Pride n their with Good pay and and a Good place to profound changes Are spreading from the collision Between new health demands and traditional in a is the super doctor and super the coital yourself Days of the physician Are closing out Hes been becoming More the quarterback of a new kind of health he of Neces delegating some familiar old functions to people specifically trained to perform fifteen years a doctor would have screamed if a nurse dared to give a hypodermic injection or set up an intravenous feeding now its becoming one physician in responsibilities and the registered nurse is moving licensed practical nurses now perform some of the registered nurses former including changing simple dress Ings and hospitals now have nearly such practical appearing also is the the Johns Hopkins Hospital is training some for there is no possibility that All the infants going to be born can be delivered by said Thomas Hopkins medical school Nursema delves Are trained to handle routine prenatal and postnatal including advice on feeding and to perform unless complications Are suspected or and Why several authorities Sug borrow from the military system that quickly trains corpsmen for specific or saving work on the Battlefield their counterparts can be used at changes not ill of which either patients or doctors May like have been House Calls by doctors Are far less Many doctors Are banded together into group nurses or technicians often draw blood or conduct some Ratlae some experts predict development of special assistants to take your medical before the doctor sees you to ask More and make his diag Nosis and in one in three of All health workers was a said wll am surgeon general of the Public health now it is one in the health Industry is the on w the stars and stripes 11
