Hospital Construction
Solving Health Problem
Encouraging the construction of
hospitals is one way in which
North Carolina is solving the
iieal th problem which has become
so acute in recent years, accord
ing to an editorial !n the Greens
boro News, which reads as follows:
' That there is a genuine health
or medical problem in this coun
try is obvious. It is not the prob
lem of tiie rich who can stand high
doctors' fees and hospital expenses,
nor is it the problem of the poor
who are provided for by char.ty.
Hut it is a problem for any house
holuer in the middle income class
who has been confronted by the
necessity ? of paying for a serious
and prolonged illness ip his fam
ily.
"This problem will not be solved
by cries of 'socialized medicine'
against any proposal to deal with
it. Nor do we think that it will be
solved by planners in Washington
w ho put so much stress on com-1
pulsory health insurance.
"The root of the problem, it
seems to us, is a shortage of doc
tors and hospital facilities. Heavy
increases in health and accident in
surance without a corresponding
increase in doctors and facilities
would be calculated to aggravate
instead of ameliorate the prob
lem.'
"The law of supply and demand
still has some standing. If there
were enough doctors, it stands to
reason that competition would low
er costs and there would be more
Physicians in rural areas. :
I "Is there actually a shortage of
doctors? The following excerpt
from an editorial in the $t. Louis
Post-Dispatch may throw some
light on that question:
" 'In supporting Dean Leland,
Dean William Guthrie of Ohio
State said that fewer doctors were
graduated last year thap in 1905'
although the population of the'
United States has nearly doubled.1
In saying this, Deaa Guthrie stress
ed a point made many times on tbis
page. There were 160 medical j
schools in this country in 1995. By
1915, the number was down to 96.
By 1935, it was down to 77. Only
one or two new schools have been
opened in the postwar years.
" 'For about three decades, the
number of medical students has
been held down to a little more
than 20.000: the number of gradu
ates to about 5.000 a year. Even
though some of the turn-of-the
century schools deserved to be
closed because of their low stand
ards, it is all too clear that the.
supply of doctors has been kept
more below the demand.
" 'This is the first point to which
medical reformers should give their
attention. Broader opportunities
for medical training are a pre
requisite for any sensible national
health program.'
"North Carolina is going about
solving the problem in the right
way when it encourages the con
struction of hospitals and the
raining of doctors. This will take
ime, but we are on the right
?oad."
Babies Are Individuals,
Have Inborn Abilities
By JANE EADS
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WASHINGTON ? "A baby sets
his own pace ... He doesn't follow ]
any timetable in a book. . . For- i
get about comparing him with other <
babies. Remember, this baby of I
yours is an individual." ! i
That's what "Infant Care," the i
government booklet which has serv- <
ed as a guide to mothers since |
1914. says today. Modern advice i
is offered after consultations with i
psychiatrists, psychologists, anthro- ! i
pologists and parent-education
workers as well as doctors, nurses
and nutritionists.? The emotional
development of the child comes in
for a large share of attention now,1
and stress is on removing the ?
things which make children behave'
in an undesirable way rather than i
>n the bahavior itself.
The gradual relaxation of certain
practices advised earlier on sleep,
feeding, crying and toilet training
show the results of the experts' in
luence. The experts insist too that
.he length of time it takes a nor
mal baby to learn to lift his chin,
smile. lift his head, reach for and
?rasp an object, laugh out loud,
roll over, sit up. walk without help,
stand alone and begin to talk is
not overly important. Some bab
ies do these things earlier, some
later than other youngsters.
"Parents cannot 'make' a child
develop any faster than he will
naturally," the booklet says. "But
they can give him surroundings
and care that allow him great free
dom for using his abilities."
Although some of the things
recommended in earlier editions of
"Infant Care" fall into today's
raised-eyebrow department, other
advice given nearly 40 years ago Is
as sound as when written:
"All babies need mothering and
should have plenty of it," the 1914
book said. "Harsh punishment has
no place in the proper upbringing
of the baby. Learning to feed a
baby, bathe him and change his
diaper doesn't take years of study
by experts. It's his needs as a
person that take some doing: These
ore tied up with the way we bathe,
feed and dress him. The loving
he gets is just as important as his
physical care."
His home, the booklet says, is the
place where a child is learning
from the day he is born, what
people are like, and "how those
about him act begins to color his
actions and feelings. He learrfc
feelings of friendliness and confi
dence from his parents."
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Congratulations
Haywood County
Your new Hospital is no longer a dream ? it stands fo
day a sign of progress ? a symbol of humanitarian service
to all
The Haywood County Hospital is a reality because the
people unselfishly gave something of themselves to bring it
into existence ? their time, effort, talent and skill. They
gave their most precious gifts of which they can be pardon
able proud.
General Electric too is proud to furnish X-Ray equip
ment for your new Hospital. It gives us great pleasure to
serve hundreds of progressive medical institutions the world
over, demanding the finest in X-Ray equipment.
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Tfjis picture was made in the early fall and shows the progress of the construction of the new wing. The old unit is in the background.
(Mountaineer Photo).
Woman Doctor, In Regular
Army, Wants Overseas Job
By JANE EADS
WASHINGTON?First Lt. Fae M. i
Adams, first woman physician com- ]
missioned in the U. S. Regular (
Army, comes by her pioneering 1
naturally. The slight brunet. who
completed her medical studies
under the GI Bill after serving
in World War II as an enlisted
I WAC and later as a commissioned
physical therapist, is the great
granddaughter of John Adams, bold
I sht'tiff of Santa Clara county in
I California's frontier days.
As one of the Army's 20 reserve
I women medipboiljeers jiow on ac
tive duty around the Svorld. Lt.'
Adams has been stationed at Camp
Crowder, Mo., since July 1952.
When she reports to Walter Reed
Army hospital here in July, she
will be the first woman to receive
residency-training at an Army hos
pital.
"Excited, pleased and honored"
at the assignment, she said when
she came to Washington to be
sworn in that she had held back
from applying because no other
women were yet in the field. Now
that she's broken the "brass," she
thinks her sister physicians will
follow suit.
The daughter of Earl S. Adams
of Morgan Hill. Calif., Lt. Adams
had finished her pre-medical course
at the University of California and
was serving as Camp Counselor at
Lake Tahoe, Nev., in the summer
Df 1943, when she joined the WAC.
In 1944 she trained at Lawson
Cieneral Hospital, Atlanta, Ga., for
!ier commission as a physical thera
pist. She served as Second Lieu
tenant in the Pacific area 14 months
before her discharge in 1947. Then
she entered the Women's National
College of Pennsylvania under the
GI Bill and was graduated in June,
1951.
At the Camp Crowder reception
center she has assisted with the
medical exams given boys about to
be separated from the service.
''When a GI gets sick," she's found,
"he welcomes a woman doctor as
i readily as any otjier. They're the
best patients in the world."
Though she says she's "not much
of a talker," Lt. Adams, with a
glint of michief in her eyes and
dimples showing when she smiles,
expressed herself, very definitely
about her likes.
She's longing for overseas duty
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one day and wants to see Paris. '
When she was a little girl she had a ;
fondness for rocks and stones and ;
collected so many she almost crowd- '
ed her family out of the house.
For off-duty wear, she likes Cali- t
fornia casuals, "not too severe, not
too frivolous." Of French ancestry, j
she likes to cook?and can. Her t
newest love is golf. One of the <
first things she did here was to i
look around for a golf course near
Walter Reed.
Hormone ACTH IsSto3
Leukemia In Its Tracks!
Acute leukemia, the fatal blood
cancer, is being s*opped in its
tracks by the wonder hormone.
ACTH, three cancer experts rp
; port.
Five patients treated with the
1 hormone all have ipade dramatic
recoveries, Drs. O. H. Pearson, L.
E. Eliel and T. R. Talbot. Jr.. of
the Sloan-Kettering Institute and
Memorial hospital in New York
report.
One child had a relapse three
weeks later but again was brought
back to health with ACTH. The
others, two children and two adults,
?till were well one day to five
weeks after getting the hormone.
They had almost no signs of the
disease. Th^y had received daily
Injections for 24 to 3D days.
Whether they will have relaps
es isn't yet known. Dr. Pearson
said. He said these recoveries still
must be called temporary and in
complete.
Other treatments bring tempo
rary recoveries in leukemia. But
the best of these has been only
about 30 per cent effective in chil
dren. ACTH thus appears to be
the best drug yet found to help
these patients. "
Leukemia is a cancer of the blood,
with the body making too many
white blood cells. Acute, or fast
acting attacks, usually kill in a
few weeks or months, or in a year. (
Chronic leukemia, which people i
may have for years, also is halted i
temporarily by ACTH. It comes |
back later, but then the hormone i
can bring recoveries a second time, s
Tbis effect in chronic leukemia was I
reported a jew _ L
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ACTH or cortiaone^
cases they were alreS,
with leukemia, thtyjS
So far, ACTH hunt
effect against other fJ
cer, including cancer d,
testes, and adrenal gu^
kemia. it destroyed
The studies are gouu
tempts to learn just he.
'"ones produce these ea
and how to better the tt,
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?nones are being nud,
bile and from hog pitui^
there is goes to media
research on arthritis, |
rheumatic fever and otha
Buckeye State?
Officially
COLUMBUS, 0.
spite some snide remart
Fun, about its odor the
tree is to become the ofl|
tree for Ohio. Ohio long
known as the buckeye i
it never has been off.
state legislature, 150 ye
.he state was founded,
got around to making ,
Jesignation.
. The measure provided I
slative fun as it passed
ite. Although he voted f?
sen. Arthur Blake, a fin
nented that the buckeji
'scrubby,'" that it "stii
hat its fruit poisons cat
Sen. I. E. Baker, cfaa
or passage, agreed la
lie committee approvia|
'Even as bad as it stukt
t."
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