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A Study in the Voluntary Hospital System

William B. Bean, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1966;118(5):413-417.

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FOR A long time I have felt that every society makes it own diseases. Then it puts an ungodly amount of effort and time as well as money and human energy into trying to correct or treat or even cure the diseases which it has stirred up. In reflecting on 200 years of Pennsylvania Hospital and the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania, a story which more than covers the life of our nation, I indicated how effective a history of a hospital is in showing us the social, economic, scientific, and humanitarian aspects of the society in which the hospital rises up. Now that the trend is to have the state take an increasingly important grip on medical practice and medical care by fiat, decree, or edict, a study of the voluntary hospital system in England as exemplified by the 200-year history of the London Hospital unhappily describes . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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The London. By A. E. Clark-Kennedy, Pitman Medical Publishing Co., Ltd., 46 Charlotte St, London, 1962 (vol 1), 1963 (vol 2); many illustrations. Price $5.40 (vol 1), $7.00 (vol 2).

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