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Show Page 4 July 21, 1967 The Looking Glass by Cheryl Lorenc Medicine Is an expensive business. No one can put a limit on the price of human life even if they'd like to. It's too bad that things very vital and significant can be so readily analagous to 'bigness'. If life is the most important concern of people than the field most concerned with protecting this life is not only the most important field of human endeavor, but nowadays it must be housed and programmed, and must cost in the biggest way possible. The current use of 'bigness' is not simply the result of any one value system or cause. In a country with a big and growing population, existing at a time when the world is having its biggest population yet, with the biggest armies and bombs and planes and threats it's no wonder we turn to Big Government (like it or not) and to Big Business and to Big Labor Unions and Big Medicine. Before the Medicare Bill was finally passed there was a lot of feet stamping and shouting about the needs and dangers of even limited Socialized Medicine. Since both arguments pro and con were highly emotionalized and neither side seemed akin to any compromises it seems useless to re-hash the fight except to say that it seems that those favoring Government paying for medical bills of people, won. The fact is though, that they won Government financing for all of us, because in the Medicare bill is a clause that says in seven years (not sure of the time) or so State Legislatures must set a minimum wage limit that below which all people may qualify for Medicare. In New York State last year the legislature met already and decided that when the law comes into effect in New York any one who makes less than $10,000 will qualify. What did the advocates of "Medicare" really win? In the closest analysis Big Government has won the chance to make itself, and Big Medicine, bigger. The people who supported Medicare were not alone in their concern about who was going tc pay medical costs. There has been a crisis or two brewing in the Medical Fields for the last twenty years. There's a shortage of doctors and nurses. There is a shortage of hospital beds and a duplication of expensive miracle services from open heart surgery to kidney transplants. Wonder drugs are flooding the market inadequately researched and terribly overpriced. And under the assumption that cost is the root of all evils in medicine, Government has kindly stepped in to pay the bills. The way to improve medicine is not that simple nor can it be forced upon the professions and services involved in Medicine. Increasing services adding computers even getting someone else to pay the bill for us are in some degree ways of improving Medical Care. But one of the most significant and valuable ways to improve anything is to refine it. Maybe bigness isn't the answer to all medicine's problems, whether the bigness is expressed in numbers or size. Maybe we need to refine the process of educating doctors. Do they really need four years pre-med, four years medical school and from three to eight more years internship and residency? The head of the Harvard Medical School thinks not. There are studies that show no correlation between physician competency in practice and medical school grades or number of years in residency. During World War n the country recognized the shortage and need for doctors and a good many doctors are practicing today, very competently having completed the accelerated two year course. The shortage is just as great. In fact there are fewer doctors per 10,000 people today than there were thirty years ago. '((h arid COMPANY 2434 WASH. BLVD. (upstairs) j Fine At Fair Lower Prices COLLEGIATE WEEKLY Beauty Contest Slated The Salt Lake City Jaycees announced Friday its sponsorship of the Miss Utah, for Miss World Beauty Pageant. The Pageant will be presented at the Valley Music Hall Saturday, August 5th at 8 p.m. McDonald Carey will be the master of ceremonies with Buddy Morrow and his band sharing the star billing. The contest is open to all young ladies and the judging is based on beauty and poise. Each girl will be sponsored by a business or other organization. Interested young ladies may apply at, "The Image", 24 West 1st South, Salt Lake City, Utah or call 328-0923 for further information.The winner of this pageant will be entered in the Miss U.S.A. World Pageant in Baltimore, Maryland with the winner of Miss U.S.A World to be entered in the Miss World Beauty Pageant in London, England. Tickets for the Pageant may be purchases from any member of the Salt Lake Jaycees, and at all Valley Music Hall Box offices. mm- NORGE ! I Has the . j Lowest I Prices j in town. I 3303 Grant Ave. j - 392-0851 i . v r hi 'V 1 In i ) K Principal characters in the Weber State College production of "Finian's Rainbow" rehearse for the August 1 opening night presentation. "Finian" Musical Begins Aug. 1 at Weber State WHIT.E'S V community ) 1 iJ) DEIVERY SERVICE ( ; AVAILABLE BIRTHDAY WEDDING CAKES pies A IXsszS' SWEET ROLLS fojSZ- DOUGHNUTS Sj? XW) Dial 394-6044 5 IF NO ANSWER CALL t' 392-8394 2717 WASHINGTON BLVD. "Finian's Rainbow," a popular Broadway musical, will be presented by the Weber State College Summer Theatre Festival for a five-day run beginning August 1. The production will be the first time Weber State has presented a musical during vacation season and it is the final of three productions of the festival. Leonard Rowley, director, describes the musical as a "very lavish show," combining the talents of actors, musicians and dancers.Musical director is Ron Wooden, who joined the Weber State faculty this year after serving as music director at Ogden High school. Wooden is also playing a romantic role in the musical. Set designer for the play is Michael Sharp, who is also a new WSC faculty member. Choreographer is Pam Fuller, a graduate of the University of Utah modern dance department. Costumes designed by Sharp are being constructed by Mrs. Julia Nebeker and her staff of seamstresses.Title role of "Finian" will be played by Dean Hurst, WSC alumni and development fund director. Hurst also had the lead in Weber State's production of "The Music Man" five years ago. Jeanne Newak, veteran of many college and community performances, will play th role of Sharon, the daughter, who is in love with Woody Mahony. Mahony, played by Wooden, shuns the attention of the daughter, setting the basis for the story. Also performing a major role is J.D. Stokes, who has performed at the Valley Music Hall. He will enroll as a freshman at Weber State next September. More than 50 students have roles in the several casts of the show, Rowley said. MEtmon men Haircuts STILL Clyde Froerer Ross Weaver Clyde's Barbershop I Block below Wosh 332 - 36 Slrwl DU" Pi 3050 Grant Avenue Phone 392-9701 For Take-out Orders Open Daily 5 to 1 Sundays 5 to 1 0 TOMORROW & EVERY FRIDAY QOGEI E3AHD GfJED7 John & th Blue Beats Linx Heddz Broughams, Ind.. The Parlor Boys Road Runners King James Version St. John & the Pharisees and others $1.00 Per Person 800 P.M. m. tr i SAT. ONLY CREATORS OF "WINDY" "CHERISH" & "ALONG CAME MARY" A SAT., JULY 29 f i EVERLY 2 PERFORMANCES CONCERT AT 7:00 P.M. SHOW & DANCE 9:30 P.M. $2.50 Per Person Table Reservations 363-4451 ). DANCING TO THE BOSSMEN . fa U .ml |