Show Utah January 1965 Dear Editor i We feel that the recent article in the Uintah Basin Standard concerning and his reasons for leading Duchesne needs some It would be a shame If his negative attitude toward a successful medical practice in the Duchesne area were not refuted we do need a doctor here very It Is not well but it is a consulted legal advice before he came to to see if he could break his contract with the Duchesne Hospital His article states that it appeal's that Duchesne did not need a doctor as badly as they believed when they loaned him the We feel that the need was and still is and that if a doctor would come here and practice medicine and do it in a business-like that there is a good practice Anyone starts a business or profession should realize that it takes a little time to get the confidence of the public a confidence cannot be obtained by continually telling people that you will have to leave if things don't pick People just don't switch doctors if they feel an in the new We feel that is a fine but in some instances he was not competitive in his The number of patients that had was never a deciding factor in whether or not we were going to open our We had pushed for opening it until it became apparent that was not going to stay in and and then did SOME of the board members become very reluctant to borrow the money necessary to reopen the hospital according to the State Board of Health's Many of the board members still had faith that the doctor would honor his by staying here and went after part of the board reorganized and planned to reopen the has indicated that the modern clinic and rent-free housing in Wells partly influenced liis decision to break his contract with the Duchesne Hospital Board and move but only last spring the Duchesne City Council offered to remodel the hospital as a clinic for and a Duchesne citizen offered him a home nearly The citizens of Duchesne also donated to nearly in interest which the doctor did not pay when he repaid the principal on his This amounts to about per month subsidy while he was We are not trying to show that the doctor's decision to leave was entirely his own fault Surely the citizens of this community are to some extent to blame if he did not receive the practice needed to help him fulfill his financial Perhaps he did not get all the help he expected from the hospital but we sincerely tried to make him No one was more chagrined than we were at his to we feel it would be a mistake for the public to believe for a minute that there is not enough practice here to support a tor or that there is not still serious need for a doctor in our Yours Dora B. Hansen Barbara Meriwether Kara Lyn Taylor Neill Jensen Kermit Poulson Carl Wilkerson Don Mayhew Maxine W. B. |