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Public Health Administration

Public Health Administration prietary rights in his patients. In his capacity practitioner he has no vested monopoly in all that pertains to the health and well-being of society. Just so long as his attitude is disinterested and guided by the needs of the many rather than of himself alone; just so long as he cultivates the acquisition, increase, and practice of medical knowledge, and regards his financal reward as a by-product rather than an end in itself; he will be honored in the community, and his counsel will be respected and followed. When he becomes primarily a tradesman, he properly loses caste and influence. It is true that the increasing socialism of medicine has led to and has perpetuated a number of injustices. The physician is still expected to give a large part of his time and services to the public welfare without compensation, or with inadequate compensation. It would, to my mind, be perfectly proper for physicians to demand payment for their work in hospitals and clinics. Such work is an assumption by one class-the physicians-of obligations that properly test upon the whole community. Propaganda and a c t i o n to achieve this end may be dignified and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Public Health American Public Health Association

Public Health Administration

Henry F. Vaughan
American Journal of Public Health , Volume 19 (7) – Jul 1, 1929
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prietary rights in his patients. In his capacity practitioner he has no vested monopoly in all that pertains to the health and well-being of society. Just so long as his attitude is disinterested and guided by the needs of the many rather than of himself alone; just so long as he cultivates the acquisition, increase, and practice of medical knowledge, and regards his financal reward as a by-product rather than an end in itself; he will be honored in the community, and his counsel will be respected and followed. When he becomes primarily a tradesman, he properly loses caste and influence. It is true that the increasing socialism of medicine has led to and has perpetuated a number of injustices. The physician is still expected to give a large part of his time and services to the public welfare without compensation, or with inadequate compensation. It would, to my mind, be perfectly proper for physicians to demand payment for their work in hospitals and clinics. Such work is an assumption by one class-the physicians-of obligations that properly test upon the whole community. Propaganda and a c t i o n to achieve this end may be dignified and

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Published: Jul 1, 1929

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