OCR Text |
Show Survey shows free services donated donat-ed by physicians include 39.97o of donated hours to treating private pri-vate patients without charge; 22.7 of donated time going to outpatient clinic services; hospital hos-pital ward service given free receives re-ceives 26.5 of physician's donated do-nated time, while another 10.9 goes to free treatments for the ' doctor's kin. School students, ' scouting services, amateur athlete . team care, blood donors, clergymen, clergy-men, emergency cases, and charity char-ity work. j "Perhaps thesa contributions I ! should be taken into fuller ac- ! count in current debates con- j coining medical care for the ' aged," it was pointed out. j I Medics Donate Millions " Annually in Free Service The nation's doctors annually donate millions of dollars worth of medical service to the public through free treatments, operations opera-tions and services they perform in their offices, at hospitals and in outpatient clinics, Harold Bowman, Bow-man, executive secretary of the Utah State Medical Association, reports. A nationwide survey just released re-leased by New Medical Materia, a research group, estimates the value of donated services by all the physicians in the United States at $658,000,000 in 1960. This is a rise of over 10 in free services rendered since the last survey in 1955, Mr. Bowman noted. The amount of care donated by general practitioners averages $3360 in 1960, while specialists will donate an estimated $4812 in free care and service to patients. Donated care by physicians in communities of under 10,000 population pop-ulation average $4313 and In cities of over 10,000 population the average Is $4416, according to the survey. "Utah's figures pretty well fol' low the national average, we believe," be-lieve," the Utah State Medical Association executive said, "The study shows six gut of every ten doctors devote 10 or more of their work hours to free care," Mr. Bowman stated. The |