The surgeon and the cost of medical care
1985; Elsevier BV; Volume: 150; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/0002-9610(85)90002-9
ISSN1879-1883
Autores Tópico(s)Primary Care and Health Outcomes
ResumoIn 1982 at the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Harvard Medical School, Dr. Francis Moore recounted the multiplicity of problems,confronting the founders of the School. In the British tradition, some thought that the University should not have a medical school since medicine was a trade. The State of Massachusetts thought it should award the degree of doctor of medicine. The 23 physicians in the town objected to the intrusion of the faculty and tried to keep the control of the Alms House for the town doctors. The professor of surgery and the professor of medicine did not see eye-to-eye from politics to practice. Financing the faculty was difficult. The president of the University, Willard, suggested that the professors see private patients. It would seem, in view of the similarities of the prob-
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