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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1950
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
"Isn't this a wonderful floor-almost like dancing on a carpet."
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Group Malady
Less than a year after the British National Health program made all medical and hospital service free to everyone, Britain's death rate jumped from 123 to 150 for each 10,000.
When the gates were thrown open in July, 1948, the swelling stream was congested by the many who were chronically ill. These persons, previously cared for by relatives, could now be handed over to the government.
To make the congestion worse, patients managed to linger in hospital beds. During the first winter under the new program, persons urgently in need of hospitalization could not get accommodation. Five thousand emergency patients—in London alone—could not find beds. Today there are over 200,000 Britons on hospital waiting lists. It is very hard for anyone over 60 years old to get hospital treatment.
General practitioners continue to pass off onto the hospitals so many troublesome patients that there is an increasing number of the aged who are refused admittance, and some of them are emergency cases.
Admissions officers at clinics cannot successfully screen chronic cases from genuine ones. The brightest part of the entire British health program, however, is in maternity care. Pregnancy affords slight chance for uncertainty.
The program is already having an unfortunate effect on the British medical profession. Since 1948 there has been a slight decrease in the number of young men studying medicine. The situation demands a vast increase.
Under the National Health act a young doctor must be approved by a local committee before he can set up practice. Doctors already in the locality are on these committees. Local politics, not ability, usually determine who will fill vacancies. Young, aspiring medics fear that the difficulties of administering the cumbersome system would make necessary more and more bureaucratic regulations under the jurisdiction of governmental agencies.
Some doctors in Britain are afraid to speak out. This is characteristic of those existing practitioners who have huge panels—up to 4000 persons—and receive disproportionately high incomes though they give inadequate care to patients.
We must analyze the facts of the British situation for the purpose of learning lessons as to our own future health program. Will self-reliance and leadership continue when personal responsibilities are reduced? What will happen when the state takes a man's earnings and spends the money doing things for him?
Although the effects on character are intangible and indirect, the facts of the operation of the British sysem speak clearly to us. At 60. you die. —Charles F. Reiner
The rumor is that the scalpers are already operating on the Bradley-K.U. game, and the alarmists are getting up the vigilantes in Prairie acre now.
Nebraska's coach, Harry Good, finally broke his silence to let everyone know that just because he didn't say anything didn't mean he wasn't thinking some things.
Dear Editor-
Here Too?
Noting the editorial "Hate Mongers" by Mr. Madden in Tuesday's Kansas, I wondered who could disagree with any ideas presented therein. However, let us not forget Kansas too. There are sympathizers with the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas whether they admit it or not.
Dear Editor:
Even the president and dean of one of our state colleges hold these views. That college prohibits students whose skin happens to be darker than the majority from entering or using—even for their own group parties—the ballroom of the Student Union building. In a personal interview with this college president, I learned that if these students (1 per cent of the total enrollment) were allowed in the ballroom interracial marriage would result.
In addition, this president reported that a Kansas University official of high standing had told him that "Negroes have almost completely taken over the Student Union at K. U." He added that he did not want that at his school. We might reply "what if it were true—it's their privilege as Americans to get elected or appointed to controlling positions."
Yes, we in Kansas have persons in influential positions with un American attitudes, too. Much to our regret we must put Kansas or the list with Iowa and Nebraska.
—Ruth Gibson College senior
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Occasionally, there are breathing spells and Dr. Harris makes the most of them.
"Of course," the veteran of both world wars notes, "I tell them I can't make calls if they get sick at home."
Dr. Harris has resumed his regular office hours, long and rigorous, and he even has patients calling on him Sundays at times.
Troy, Mo.—(U.P.)—A severe handicap which would put a lot of people flat on their backs hasn't sidelined Dr. Harold Shelton Harris from his profession.
He reports that there are just as many patients calling on him as before. too.
A blood clot in July, 1947, resulted in four operations for the general practitioner. They saved his life but they cost him his legs, which were amputated at a point, high above the knees.
Nevertheless, after a brief recovery period, hardy, amdic Dr. Harris was back in the business of caring for the injured and ailing.
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He rolls his wheel chair swiftly down a ramp constructed outside his modest home and it's off to the open countryside for a spin in the family car.
Then there are those pleasant jaunts over the Mississippi river opposite Winfield, Mo. Assisted into a boat which sports a specially built-in seat, the doctor goes fishing for crappies, his favorite pastime.
Dr. Harris was interning at West Belle, Mo., in 1926, when they brought in Godfrey Hannin, a Troy feed merchant, who had been badly beaten by robbers.
It was while he was treating Mr. Hannin that the young internde learned of Troy's need for a replacement for old Dr. C. D. Avery, who was retiring.
Shortly afterwards Dr. Harris came to this peaceful little community of 1,900 inhabitants, 55 miles northwest of St. Louis.
Dr. Harris, beloved and respected by his patients has been here ever since.
There's one thing that gets the genial doctor "down" at times. It's the shortage of doctors in this sprawling Lincoln county region.
Besides himself, only two other physicians, one of them a recent displaced-persons arrival from Europe, are available to minister to
the 15,000 persons in the county.
"What happens if both the other men are out on baby cases and somebody is taken seriously ill?" Dr. Harris pondered with a frown creasing his round, pleasant face.
"Something must be done now," he warned. "We've got to get more doctors in country areas like this or see the quacks take over, the quality of medical care go down and people languish for want of attention."
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