I was born in a house in East Ham in 1924, and started practice in that house in 1948. My
father was a gen-eral practitioner who had settled there in 1921. He developedlung cancer …

THERE are approximately 403 000 staffedavailable hospital beds in the United Kingdom.
Though it is impossible to be exact, current estimates indicate that just over 11 000 of these …

Except for major urgent health prob¬ lems, the primary contact for both pre¬ ventive and
curative medicine should be community-rather than hospital-based. Every effort should be …

Community care services provide support for the most vulnerable people, mainly older
people, in our society. In the UK, social care is provided by local authorities and health care …

This is not an easy book to read. It is even printed on typewriter script on a wide page similar
to a series of Gestetner mimeographs. Yet this' community medicine thing'may be a very …

Community hospitals occupy an uneasy middle ground between primary and secondary
care sectors: they have at times been threatened, promoted, and occasionally overlooked …

SIR,-The concept expressed in my paper (3 May, p 1140) of shifting a large amount of highly
expensive institutionally based care into the community seems to engender a lot of support …

A hospital, in the minds of the general public, is a place to go when one is ill, injured or in
need of special assistance. To the health professional, however, it is much more than that …

-Dr. Michael Rachlis, speaking about a report he prepared for the City of Toronto that calls
for a ceiling on annual payments to the province's doctors. r. Gaetan Martel is glad lihe quit …