Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-06-22 | Page 8 | Dr. Fishbein's Health Talks

Dr Fishbein's Health Talks This Is the second of two articles articles arti arti- cles des by Dr Fishbein reviewing the progress medicine has made in the last century By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN The mind of man predominantly demands study The dynamic psychology of SIgmund SIg SIg- mund Freud the Investigations into behavior the adjustments of human rel relationships do much to assure great create greater er happiness In the future The efficiency engineers have accomplished accomplished ac ae ac- ac marvels for industry Increasing increasing in In- creasing output shortening hours of work and making simpler the task of or worker Yet human ever every you ou as a being are still a mass of living tissue highly complex in construction and dominated by a mind which ma may at atthe atthe atthe the same time represent your soul If the advance in the science of medicine has established any anyone one fact it t is that no rio two human beings are alike and that your retention of oC the status of the human being as an individual is of vital si significance to you in times Umes of suffering and dis dis- dis case ease C S C The nineteenth century marked the beginnings of research The twentieth twentieth century finds mankind accumulating accumulating lating information faster than it can use it il The twenty first century should find order introduced into chaos and more health and happiness for all Problems of distribution in medical med ical care make It difficult for many people to avail themselves of all that medicine now offers It seems vital to establish the fundamentals of good medical care and to assure every individual individual in in- of at least these For centuries the service of the medical profession to the poverty poverty- stricken has been proverbial as the fulfillment of a humane ideal A profession profession pro pro- fe ion with thousands of years of such traditions behind it must keep this point of view for the future The medical profession is capable of developing plans whereby the magnificent service that it can render ren ren- der will become increasingly useful to greater and greater numbers number of people C C C CIn I In the great Century of Progress exposition of the twenty first century cen cen- tury medicine again no doubt will be outstanding In its contribution We shall see the majority of mankind man man- kind approximating the three score years and ten which is the normal biological cycle eele of man We shall see a beginning of some control over reproduction of the unfit and the de de- generate More infectious diseases will be eliminated The bodies of little children chil chil- dren will be better nourished The better utilization of more leisure time will decrease the nerve strains and stresses now associated with both mental and physical breakdown The frontiers of dise disease move onward onward on ward as the control of diseases makes progress Germs change their nature New generations of men lose their immunities of the past New machines new chemicals and new methods of living lhing bring new I hazards which must be Investigated The medical profession is a for for- ward looking eternally vigilant and ever hopeful body of men to whom science is a god and service an ideal