Show director explains public health and private medicine Al medical edical care and treatment of disease have so often been confused with public health that explanation should be welcome by all ho are uninformed says dr lloyd al farner director of health district number four ut at provo the practice of medicine care of patients including diagnosis and treatment of disease are ohp the province of the practicing physician organized eifort to prevent disease by promotion of sanitary conditions arid and the encouragement of all measures necessary to the health of the citizen and community anity that is is public health in other words the physician in pr private vate practice thinks in terms of th the e individual patient his greatest c effort being to counteract ane ravages of disease and render the victim well strong and healthy think in terms of groups the public health doctor and his associates in the world work on the other hand think in terms of communities muni ties towns cities and states their entire endeavor being to improve the environment of each and all that possibilities of epidemics be minimized or entirely eradicated these two highly specialized fields of endeavor should go hand in hand and each support the other the physician should not be ba d with in his medical care and treatment of patients and the public health doctor should be allowed to carry on without interference and with all cooperation by practicing physicians in his work of protecting the public there has been a high degree of such cooperation between the medical societies and the health workers in this district the public health doctor his nurses and sanitarians sanit arians lans give e just one piece of advice when matters of individual illness are mistakenly referred to them call your family physician call your doctor in cases of epidemic the public health doctor takes immediate command of the situation pursuing such measures as will check the disease and giving hearty support wherever possible to the physicians in private practice who are treating the individual cases and to the local health officials the public health nurses and the sanitarians sanit arians follow out standard practices in cases of epidemic IC and assist in acry way to prevent further spread of disease by isolation inoculation vaccination vaccina tio 1 I and sanitary measures care of the individual case is left to the practicing physician and the individual who is uncertain as to his own health is given the invariable advice call lour our doctor immediately |