European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Stapes Ailt a Hows mechanical replacement parti available for including a heart How to bring health care to All its simply Laid a Pedi Latricia in a Large Eastern Tyoa wonder if Tome Way cant be found to give these kids a better medi Cal these kids were mostly from poor enrolled in a head Start program to prepare them better for entering on third of medical examiners had some major medical or emotional that to one measure of the health mostly unmet among millions of poor people in big cities and Many Rural second Twe needs unmet despite Hospital Clin and physicians donated various reasons Are suggested for the people dont know facilities exist then went enough faculties some peo pit cant find babysitters or take time Fin their jobs Dolnics and services too fragmented and patients Are shunted from place to place and Many no medical or Hospital insurance the charge is even made that poor people just dont but Aad the slice gales to meet their Ike nations system a Fol be challenged More medicare will Taring part of this new since Many elderly persons Liv ing on limited incomes will be offered  under social Security they May also sign at Jow for medical looking to july when medicare be hospitals i some cities expect a heavy demand for Beds and others anticipate Only a slight mainly because Many Beds already an occupied by patients Over Hole rdc of the medicare Law Calls March by Alton a staff writer upon slates vastly to expand their pro Grams of health care for All the need a and medically needy in each by july if they Are to continue receiving Federal poor health is one one an in a vicious Cycle of without the poor gel sicker and the sick get says Jack Gelgur of Tufts University med ical school in he and count Gilbson pro Fessor of preventive Medicine at originated a novel approach to improve the health of the sponsored by the medical with an initial Grant of in poverty program the program is setting up two Community health one in another to come in n Rural Southern the Boston at the Columbia Point housing is operate in its first four 800 children and adults in the housing development came for diagnosis and we haunt expected that amount of demand until next Gelger this health program is one Pilot at tempt aided by a computerized sys tem of keeping records to determine the real need for health what they Cost in services and Money to meet there Are families in the hous ing and on third of them enrolled in a voluntary health association which he snort plan the health renter but anyone in the housing project can uti Lize the health no one is charged for prevention of illness is pm he association members decided that families should pay 13 a year in membership partly to help equip the we asked Why s3 was decided upon and someone said because that the Cost of just one taxi ride in the Middle of the night to a Hospital emergency room that we wont have to make when a health Center is right poor people not unlike anyone else find ways of beating the if they love to wait ton Lonu in a Hospital clinic sometimes the wrong clinic or return Day after or answer the same questions or go to several they find they can get faster care by going to the hospitals Emer gency but Gibson and Gelger Point they dont have to beat the sys tem because its their when problems they help us solve whatever the outcome of this particular the future promises Many other changes in Medicine has chalked in tremendous successes in postponing relieving in Patching people and it is Only starting to realize its full one major most will be upon preventing disabilities and ill including heart and even the galloping plague of the common the emphasis will be upon keeping you Well and through comprehensive you each have a checkup involving to or More most of them with automated equipment and a computer analysing results initially for your Doc Jar Drc Cut Ting of the permanent medical group in within five ailing in May be removed and re placed with Batter operated mechanical ultimate Success is expected in the dream of becoming Able to borrow vital organs limbs the dead and transplanting them into the death often knocks pre maturely because one Organ fails in a who otherwise is 90 per cent some confidently expect we shall learn How to alter human heredity to prevent inheritable As Well As to Correct those that do average life spans May increase a it is More Likely that Dell it f aging will be postponed some nagging moral or ethical questions May become More acute jut Bow Long should heroic and expensive efforts and medications continued to keep breath in detains who May be Only technically alive As one heart specialist puts should we allow human beings the dig Nulty of death is too much some physicians wonder being spent on Daff Long a few As against pres err ing children and younger adults from grave health or overcoming their physical or emotional handicaps and where is the Money coming from for All the proposed programs some say we cannot afford it oth ers believe we through insurance systems and tax How shall it be done without diluting Medcal or interference with the physicians Best judgment for his patient he Clear from these inter is toward More effect More widespread medical in the planning stage now and a matter of some controversy is establishment of a National network of Region Al centers for heart cancer and it is intended to bring the Best skills in diagnosis and treatment of these to every physician and Region by is moving stun mgr they Are Model tag to men attractive and Sta App tag labor caving automation in Hospital laboratories is becoming Welt advanced computers Are entering to reduce paper keep to Speed the flow of inform even to Aid in More careful administration of drugs to nursing Many of them staffed and providing Only minimal Are expected to undergo vast improve physicians will have More assistance in keeping abreast of flow of advancing medical knowledge while keeping the responsibility to determine its value for their the american medical for is considering a National plan for continuing medical it is launching a Pilot study in partly to measure the individual Post graduate educational needs among Doc the american Academy of general practice has made certain requirements for continuing education a condition for maintaining membership in the facade the harried medical student will find is courses changing some medical Deans being broadened into the we problems of his future at Tufts in a program under count Gibson medi Cal students go out into to learn what needs what  serv ices Are available to help a patient and it elves he a Viva experience they cannot obtain in hos i thl stabs and stripes schools must take on responsibility for segments of the Popula Tion in their for total cars and preventive said Robert Harvard medical school we must teach the student he has responsibility to the Community for the welfare of the whole we have  so much responsibility to the individual patient that the student can be left with the impression he has Little responsibility for what goes on in the but he must be come involved with the Community and its tamping tobacco into is Dean Ebert said we must have an Eye and feeling for what the Public for that is us purpose or 11