[N.B.C trade releases]. (1961)

Page scan 0007 from [N.B.C trade releases].

Record Details:

Title:
[N.B.C trade releases].
Date:
1961
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : National Broadcasting Company]
Volume:
[N.B.C trade releases].
Leaf #:
0007
Language:
English
Subjects:
National Broadcasting Company -- Periodicals, Television programs -- United States -- Periodicals","Radio programs -- United States -- Periodicals","Press releases
Contributor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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2 Anatomy of a Hospital1 Mr. Gitlin pointed out that in 1953 a Presidential commission estimated that the U. S. would need 292,000 doctors by i960. He said that today the nation is short of that figure by 60,000, and that a new report last year called for a 50 percent increase in the number of men and women graduated each year from medical schools. He cited these other figures: In 1959 U. S. hospitals had 8,400 foreign interns on their staffs - a greater number than all the M. D.s graduated from the nation’s 85 medical schools last year. Seventeen per cent of the doctors licensed for medical practice in 1958 were educated outside the U. S. According to the American Nurses Association, an additional 56,000 professional nurses are needed to supply the needs of hospital patients. In addition, hospitals report a serious lack of dieticians, laboratory and X-ray technicians, physical therapists and medical record workers . Dr. Henry Pratt, New York Hospital, wrote in the New York State Medical Journal of Feb. 1, i960 that "the steady rise in hospital costs is a cause for grave concern. .. From 1946 through 1957 the patientday cost of voluntary, general and special hospitals increased by 161.5 percent . " NBC -New York, 4/3/61