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Show DOCTORS 60 SOME IN AUTOMOBILES Through the operation of automotive automo-tive transportation small communities p.ro blessed with efficient medical service, ser-vice, tho distance from physicians' offices of-fices to country districts no longer being be-ing a discouraging consideration. Ev-ory Ev-ory doctor now days has an automobile automo-bile at his command which makes it possiblo for him to reach the sick bed in rural districts as readily as physicians physic-ians could in former days go to city districts. To make a trip to the rural sections in theso days of auto service requires by very little time and the expense' of making the trip is greatly lessened. Discussing this question a medical journal in a recent publication had this to sny: " It now takes no longer for a doctor doc-tor living In the city to run out twenty or thirty miles into tho country to visit patents, than it did for the same doctors doc-tors ten years ago to hitch up tho old nag and drive out two or throo miles. With the multiplication of hard roads tho automobiles can be used the year round. And in consequence tho area readily accessible to larger towns has grown larger and larger. .The nioro a community is protected through the service of prominent physicians and" doctors the bettor the health record of that community" will bo. Before the automobile It was a question of getting tho patient to the city so that tno services of the export could be available. Today he automobile automo-bile has changed this procedure and no matter how busy or successful the aid of his automobile he can cover three or four times the area of his activities ac-tivities and sco three or four times more patients in the same length of time that it formorly took in the oldon days when he had to depend on horseflesh horse-flesh for transportation." 00 |