Show r WI WAT AT TELEGRAM READERS THINK Jj I SOCIAL MEDICINE Editor of The Telegram May the day come soon soon soon- when care of the sick side does not depend upon the thc ability to pay and when our physical physical physical phys phys- to the ical care fro fro- conception grave is directed by health edu edu- cation As a nurse I may find that social medicine means less money in my purse but if it means better better better bet bet- ter health for my neighbors my family and my friends I shall feel fully compensated for the loss People of wealth have no need for a change in our present medical medical medical medi medi- cal system m nor have indigents whose care is free It is the great middle group of whom I write your people and my people your friends and m mv m friends people too proud for charity and too poor to afford proper medical care They are the group that social medicine will benefit Social medicine is coming As I the public demands it the medical profession will vill accept it They will do more than accept it they will direct it It is both the privilege privilege liege and the obligation of physicians physicians physicians phy phy- and surgeons to render this service to humanity as it is the privilege and duty of nurses to cooperate in the movement and to tp further it in every way ble A nurse can give no no io greater service than to care for the sick under the direction of a competent competent compe compe- tent doctor This is the aim of doctor and nurse be the patient much better better better bet bet- rich or poor And how ter that both shall be paid as the teacher is lid nid from a public fund rather than from the slender budget of one who is ill The efforts of our public health nurses to bring order out of chaos under our present system is heart heart- breaking I have been the companion companion com corn comI I panion of one of the finest nurses in the field on her daily calls and andI I have seen a baby die for lack of early medical care and proper feeding I know a family in which four lour children are failing falling in school that the thelly for want of ot glasses lasses there Then i buY ily lly cannot buy have bee i Charlie He should no not family Ich born at to all that loo looks Ii lii rc c he h rickets so badly j I due has the he ey loB a something dropped by bj nOrmal 11 iJ and he can never endlessly be to t Itt continue might the e ei tragedies of the daily d 1 you work IS h c nurses face Their J of l capped by the lack and between the medical total a absen n PU professions and the use to P a In of a fund they can care the th for their patients b i the are re e they need and to which J l e titled Hi be Social medicine all industria is gg ce in successfully an er factories mining camps cared f f Canada Calada has long mills this plan 10 r under her people plan is good coming in P 9 at Social medicine is and nurs tI state May the thebe doctors in es be e the he leading figur figures and in mK keeP lishing the system 1 inter ti it free from political S and ft TomlinsOn t B. B Katherine Cedar City V i j ji I i it t. t t 8 |