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Washington - A county in rural Virginia which I know well will soon lose its only doctor. The capable “country doctor” who has served 5,400 people in the 270-square-mile area for three generations is over-age and ailing.
He will soon be forced to retire. The sick then can expect to do without house calls or a local doctor’s office to run to in a hurry. The nearest medical aid will be 40-70 miles away in a busy hospital emergency room.
For several years, the doctor has been searching diligently for a younger man to take over his practice. He has found no one willine to come.
THIS IS A familiar story in a great many country counties where people are poor and local doctors are overworked and underpaid.
It is natural, therefore, for young medical graduates to head instead for a big-city practice as a high-paid specialist. But it is cold comfort to the seriously sick or injured in time of trouble with no doctor available in a hurry. What to do? There are several alternatives often discussed. Two of the alternatives do not appeal to most Americans or to the U. S. Public Health Service whose responsibility it is to deal with such problems. THE FIRST is what Sweden calls “The Middle Way” between the capitalist and the communist way, and what Britain has adopted in its National Health
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