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GENERAL SESSIONS 83 There is a challenge to the profession in the reports of the Committee, which proves conclusively that there exists a paradoxical combination of idle and underpaid doctors and untreated sick. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Chairman of the Committee and writer of the introduction to "Medical Care for the American People," which book is a resume and review of the reports of "The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care," states in a personal letter: "There may be a wide range of opinion as to the wisdom and practicability of the recommendations. The facts, though, are obvious and the need of doing something constructive is a pressing one. Dr. Wilbur has further warned the profession: "The doctor must recognize that whether he likes it or not something is going to be done. It is better to have it done by him than to him." There were the more radical members of the Committee, who regarded medicine in a state of transition, analogous to the state of industry during the early period of mechanization. They spoke of the marked survival of the traditional in medicine, of individualistic practice to which many physicians cling—as did the early handicraftsmen, seeing their independence and their creative skill threatened by the machine. We are, in fact, so rapidly incorporating and actually embracing so many socialistic ideas in the vacillations and changes in our social trends, that we can hardly conceive into what changes in medical organization the facts uncovered by the Committee of Fifty may be molded. Conditions of life are changing rapidly and it does seem that while economic and governmental organizations are growing at a rapid rate and church and family are declining in social significance and, at the same time, medical organization has not changed as fast as scientific medical research, that it behooves the medical profession to so organize as to sponsor and plead for, if not demand, just recognition in solving the problems of making available to the whole people the results of scientific research and experiment at a reasonable cost. Mechanical and engineering invention and productivity cannot exist without medical protection and groups and individuals, however powerful, can no longer go their own ways without realizing the meaning of the old phrase, "No man liveth unto himself." There was once a report of a "Committee of Fifty" on the alcohol question with the simple conclusion that: "alcohol in moderation was not a necessary evil, that a small amount, after the day's work was done, was beneficial rather than not." The Committee itself and the public could never have comprehended the ramifications from this report, nor have foreseen the future of the alcohol question: so-called moderate drinking in the home, rarely moderate, along with the abrupt changes in morals and manners, prohibition and its effects, the political issue, the incorporation of the question in the political platform and even now, what of it? We would now have light wines and beer to appease and satisfy the tastes of the people. Who is it, who so completely lacks a knowledge of human psychology as to think that the people would be satisfied with a placebo
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-16: Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1933 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-080 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 80 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Fixed Title * | Page 83 |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1933 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-080-0117 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 80 |
Page Number | 83 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | GENERAL SESSIONS 83 There is a challenge to the profession in the reports of the Committee, which proves conclusively that there exists a paradoxical combination of idle and underpaid doctors and untreated sick. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Chairman of the Committee and writer of the introduction to "Medical Care for the American People" which book is a resume and review of the reports of "The Committee on the Costs of Medical Care" states in a personal letter: "There may be a wide range of opinion as to the wisdom and practicability of the recommendations. The facts, though, are obvious and the need of doing something constructive is a pressing one. Dr. Wilbur has further warned the profession: "The doctor must recognize that whether he likes it or not something is going to be done. It is better to have it done by him than to him." There were the more radical members of the Committee, who regarded medicine in a state of transition, analogous to the state of industry during the early period of mechanization. They spoke of the marked survival of the traditional in medicine, of individualistic practice to which many physicians cling—as did the early handicraftsmen, seeing their independence and their creative skill threatened by the machine. We are, in fact, so rapidly incorporating and actually embracing so many socialistic ideas in the vacillations and changes in our social trends, that we can hardly conceive into what changes in medical organization the facts uncovered by the Committee of Fifty may be molded. Conditions of life are changing rapidly and it does seem that while economic and governmental organizations are growing at a rapid rate and church and family are declining in social significance and, at the same time, medical organization has not changed as fast as scientific medical research, that it behooves the medical profession to so organize as to sponsor and plead for, if not demand, just recognition in solving the problems of making available to the whole people the results of scientific research and experiment at a reasonable cost. Mechanical and engineering invention and productivity cannot exist without medical protection and groups and individuals, however powerful, can no longer go their own ways without realizing the meaning of the old phrase, "No man liveth unto himself." There was once a report of a "Committee of Fifty" on the alcohol question with the simple conclusion that: "alcohol in moderation was not a necessary evil, that a small amount, after the day's work was done, was beneficial rather than not." The Committee itself and the public could never have comprehended the ramifications from this report, nor have foreseen the future of the alcohol question: so-called moderate drinking in the home, rarely moderate, along with the abrupt changes in morals and manners, prohibition and its effects, the political issue, the incorporation of the question in the political platform and even now, what of it? We would now have light wines and beer to appease and satisfy the tastes of the people. Who is it, who so completely lacks a knowledge of human psychology as to think that the people would be satisfied with a placebo |
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Article Title | Diseases, Doctors And Dollars (The Costs Of Medical Care) |
Article Author | Addison G. Brenizer |
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