A Socialised Medical Service
1933 1933 1930s 21 pages A SOCIALISED MEDICAL SERVICE Among the objects of the Socialist Medical Association as defined by its Constitution is "To work for a Socialised Medical Service, both preventive and curative, free and open to all." To give shape and definition to this aim th...
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London : The Socialist Medical Association
1933
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1933
1930s
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A SOCIALISED MEDICAL SERVICE Among the objects of the Socialist Medical Association as defined by its Constitution is "To work for a Socialised Medical Service, both preventive and curative, free and open to all." To give shape and definition to this aim the Association has thought it desirable to set out briefly its present views as to the nature and scope of such a Service and the steps by which it might be brought into being. It is quite prepared to admit, however, that as the result of further experience and research the scheme herein described may have to be modified in certain particulars. The subject has been dealt with under the following headings:— (A) Principles that must be kept in mind. (B) The Health Service. (C) The legislative and administrative changes necessary to bring into being such a Service. (A) PRINCIPLES THAT MUST BE KEPT IN MIND In trying to work out in some detail the Health Service of the future, there are certain principles that have to be kept in mind. 1.— A PREVENTIVE SERVICE The medical service of the future will have much more to do with the prevention of disease than has the medical service of the present. To-day we divide doctors into those who prevent and those who treat disease, and the latter outnumber the former by perhaps ten to one. It will be pointed out that by curing one disease others are prevented. This, of course, is true, but what necessary is that every doctor shall have his mind directed into preventive channels and that this shall not be left entirely to a chosen few. Unfortunately, at the present time preventive medicine takes but a very small place in the curriculum of the medical student, and the laws of health for adults and children are hardly taught at all. The reason is, of course, abundantly clear. No one pays his doctor to keep him fit, and very few people except the mothers of young children inquire of their doctors concerning the laws of health. There is so much diagnosis and treatment that the preventive side is largely neglected. All 3
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