The Patient's Dilemma

By Hugh Cabot, M.D.

PROBABLY the best work yet published on the difficult problem of getting competent medical care. It is written most sympathetically from the point of view of the sufferer. The conclusion reluctantly squints at State medicine as a pis aller, laying down a set of principles on which the State should proceed. As with all collectivist proposals, the trouble is that there is no assurance that the State would proceed on any such principles, and every probability that it would not; so the sufferer’s final choice would be between the frying-pan and the fire.