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June 30, 1936
DOCTORS ASK RADIO CHANNEL FOR EMERGENCY CALLS
It's a far cry from the telephoneless days of the old. country doctor on horseback to the radio paging service for physi¬ cians planned by a New York organization.
Appearing as an applicant before the Federal Communica¬ tions Commission for a single frequency anywhere in the ultrahigh band from 30 to 50 megacycles, the radio paging division of the Doctors' Telephone Service, Inc., explained their proposal to set up an emergency call service that may be placed on a nation-wide scale.
Taking a cue from the police radio services, this doctors' organization proposes to send out signals for physicians so that they may be rea.ched even while en route to or from another call. The doctor would then go to a telephone and get the complete message ag once.
"Almost all doctors travel by private automobile and we frequently receive a call for a doctor five minutes after he has left his office and is perhaps travelling home to the suburbs 40 60 miles away", a spokesman for Doctors' Telephone Service said. "It may take him 2 hours to get home and 2 hours to come back and that 4 hours gained might frequently be the means of saving a patient's life. Contact by radio when the doctor is travelling to his home or from hospital to hospital or house call to house call is the only means by which we can bridge the gap and correct the short comings of the present system by which patients can reach their own doctor when it is most vital.
"The radio installed in police cars in large cities has been of inestimable value in combating crime. It was only the other evening that a liquor store in the neighborhood in which I live in New York was held up and robbed of $75. In exactly one min¬ ute and a half eight radio police cars had arrived at that store and about two minutes after, the hold-up men had been captured and arrested. Important as this is, surely the response of a doctor to a human being's life which is in the balance and who might be our mother, our wife or our child, is vastly more important than the apprehending of a. thief who stole $75 in currency. The money can be replaced but the life never.
"The Doctors' Telephone Service is the logical agency to seek a frequency and construction permit as we have had 14 years' experience in tracing doctors for their patients in the Telephone Service which we now render. Every day we have difficulty in tracing hundreds of doctors and in some cases we are unable to locate them.
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