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science and nuclear physics are paving the way for new laboratory triumphs.
However, there is another side to the coin. The very medical progress of which we are so proud —and for which medical schools are primarily responsible—has involved the schools in a struggle for solvency that can affect the future health and welfare of the nation.
At stake is not only the ability of the schools to supply medical personnel and meet their current obligations, but also their ability to realize the full potential of the biological sciences and to fulifll new opportunities for advancing the nation's health.
During Medical Education Week, April 21-27. the National Fund for Medical Education is appealing to business and industry for $10,000,000 additional annual income for the medical schools.
Unless the schools get additional support, the people’s demand for more* doctors, more research, more services may go unheeded Many talented voung men and women may be denied an opportunity to learn medicine.
New medical discoveries benefit no one unless there are skilled physicians to apply them.
Industry has a direct selfinterest in medical education. Industrial health programs and public health safeguards jointly pay dividends in increased efficiency, stepped-up man-hour production, reduced on-the-job illness and accident rates, reduced absenteeism, lowered insurance premiums and improved employe morale. Numerous before-and-a f t e r surveys of industrial plants show reductions to 50 percent in absenteeism from illness and accidents.
Considering what may be at stake—the health and security of the American people—it is hard
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