The family physician is urged to go into preventive medicine in order to reduce the costs of medical care to his patients, by Dr. A. J. Rongy, prominent Jewish physician, according to the Associated press which quotes from an article written by Dr. Rongy, who is the Chairman of the Greater New York Committee on Health Examination, in the current “Health Examiner.”
The publication is issued by his committee in conjunction with the New York Academy of Medicine.
“The methods of medical practice which obtained during an era of prosperity no longer continue,” Dr. Rongy says. “The lavish expenditures which prevailed in the treatment of the sick will no more be possible.
“The family doctor, to a large degree, is responsible for the tremendous and very often unnecessary hospitalization of patients throughout the country-Many a patient who could just as easily be cared for at home is sent to the hospital. This generally proves costly to the patient and very often he is unable to meet his obligations to the physician.”
The family physician, according to Dr. Rongy has been remiss in preventive medicine. “The family doctor must call a halt on all unnecessary and superflous specialistic expenditures. Instead. he should try to broaden his sphere of medical practice. This will help to reduce the cost of medical care,” Dr. Rongy declared.
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