Medicine's Greatest Problem

Medicine is baffled by manifold economic problems arising out of the chaotic condition of medical practice. Modern medicine, utilizing the growing sciences and requiring many experts, demands co-operation, but lacks the requisite organization for insuring co-operation on the part of both its agents and its beneficiaries. Since preventive medicine has attained more importance than curative, and there is no constant or sharp division between the two, and since health in general is more precious than education, it is time to establish a complete free voluntary state health and accident system to serve the public, corresponding to the medical corps of the army or of the navy. Such would reduce the cost of service by substituting for multifarious independent agencies a single unified and correlated organization, banish the financial considerations and distractions of the individual fee by assuring a decent living to its personnel, raise the general standard of practice, encourage the education of the people upon pertinent and timely medical matters, exterminate the unqualified and illegal healers, prevent the harm resulting from the haste or the fatigue of the too busy popular practitioner eager or compelled to make hay while the sun shines, and, finally, assure each patient and expeditious diagnosis and guide him promptly to the source of optimum treatment

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  Open Access•Daniel A Menchik•Social Science & Medicine•2014

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