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Show . i Zoning Doctors i Philadelphia's director of health suggests the zoning of physicians in the battle against the influenza epidertiic. He believes be-lieves there are enough doctors to cope with this or any epidemic if their hours are not wasted running all over the city to reach this and that patient, passing en route other persons ill and who need medical attention. DrT Krusen would divide Philadelphia 1ntodistricts, allotting alt influenza and pneumonia cases in each district to the physicians in that particular section.. .Thus he. Would make -it possible for every doctor to .see more sick persons while covering less ground. r ."Physicians are compelled to spend too much time in going from one patient to the next," DrTkrusen saysT I The .same problem of stretching a shortage of doctor to meet an Increase in sickness may be found in other cities. In Salt Lake Qty, too. Probably the same zoning solution might be applicable here. It might save many lives. And that is what wc want to do. " A doctor in his automobile hurrying miles out of his way to attend a patient isn't as useful to the community as a doctor at the bedside of a sick person. Any scheme which will get the doctor to the sick in the shortest possible time is, seemingly, the best jch jme, This plan may be put into more or less general practice right here in Salt Lake by the relatives of the sick. The way suggested by Dr. Krusen is to call in a doctor who lives near the sick person's home, and not telephone for a physician on the other side of the city. ' . " If every doctofNs saved two unnecessary traveling hours each day a wonderful live saving movement will be well under way. |