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Tolson 0-19 (Rev. 7-17-68) supplies. f grew up with doctors and doctor talk all around me, In a previous life, I worked for two | years in a mental hospital asa _' psychologist and later In yet an- other life as a drug detaiiman . ctlling on physicians, I had gotten HOSPITAL IN AMERICA WOULD + MAKE THE BOARD OF TRUS-: TEES OF. COLUMBIA LOOK DOWN RIGHT REVOLUTION- , _ ARY, and the Hospital Board runs - its’ institution. with a Ught fist. Suspension from a hospital — staff means black balling froman entire region and possibly from the whole country. The black-. course, to practice medicine, but without a hospital staff position, his ability to gain intensive care - treatment for his patients fs se- verely curtailed, —. a? The stakes for rebellion are high. in acdition, the material incentives for a physician who keeps his nose clean are so high that very few, very few indeed, ‘step out of tine, _.: There ts another factor which fends to make them reactionary od that is their tralning. Usual- ay medica! schools draw students _ balled physician is still free, of | who have majored in one of the - .sciences; when they cet them, a pertod of inten$ive study, intern- ship, and residence follows that ‘Might last ten years, This might be followed by another two years fn the Army for males, And so, by the time the typical physician is ready to go tntopracice, he is a thirty-five aa 4501 | /00-H49923 NO1 RECORDED Ty + 176 FEB 18 1969 . oa . ne x, sk eee ft - up a shingle and begin charging patients twenty-five to fitt dol- lars for anappointrentthat might " Yast ten minutes, and a thousand or two for anopera:ion that might take an hour or less,isextreme- - third week of hepititis, When the disease first hit me, Iwenttosee Dr, Irving Oylc, Or, Oyle is 2 rarity in the world of medicine. He 1s totally dedicated to curing patients and doesn’t give a shit. about money. A few years ago he was runninga successfil practice out on Long Island with all the right kind of patients. Somehow it wasn’t giving him the kind of gratification he wanted so he closed up shop and headed for the ghetto In New York’s Lower East Side, AS for practicing medicine, the Lower East Side must seem more like the wild west. Firmlys entrenched in a storefront that one could easily mistake as on fof the Motherfvcker dens, Dr | Oyle carries on a feos struggle . Ito bring medical care to 6n area Sehat eoutd use 6-200 Dr, Oyles. 7 , ran 2 Re email oy ) SOP: ON EONTAINED oie . .: 4 . “ ’ ', a) Te DeLoach eo ‘. . . onl. oo aot oe ens a Mohr TRA a | fs » P _ Bas H 1 Calon A a A al © as z : \ >, | . 2 ahen 1WOCIGLS [OI THE REVOIUTOL | Cle ra Gale -_ gs . “During gli those years, he has ,- Rosen 1 ABBIE HOFFMAN - y. "been exposed to little quisice ot | Sullivan _ LIBERATION NEWS'SERVICE | “the field of medicine, His train- | Tavel I'VE ALWAYS HAD THIS. _ ting, Including “undergraduate Trotter ‘ $HING ABOUT DOCTORS AND; i Yschool has cost in the neighbor- ' HOSPITALS, My father wasa dis- + hood of $39,000, It is 30 wonder Tele. Room - tributor of physician and hospital > then that the temptation to hang Holmes andy Akane to know doctors pretty well and ly high. y i 9 _my impression was, with very few — Physicians 35-40 are hungry rr = & “exceptions, that they wereadedi- after yeafs of financial depriva- a 3 -, @ated, well-me2ning groupofrot-- - _ tion, Older physicians are sur- ‘ 2 2 ” ten, conceited, dumb, racist bas-"-- _ Founded by a team of consultants, r-- CO -tards, Their politics is ona level, accountants, business secreta- wn - Say, to that of the British Admi- : gles, collection bureaus, and me- Cw “falty in the late nineteenth cen- i Gleal journals that function solely a (tury, - a to advise the doctor on the modern == 5 - Moreover, the hospital struc- ; Operating techniques concerning: oz wn n " ture which plays such a key role “a patient’s watlet, Hypochondri-: -€ YEN “tn the training and subsequent asis, that eierral inoney-maker, o-- pea Ufe of a physician encourages ‘ y stl forms the backtone of many, Polen i wat archaic medical thinking in spite =, 4 physician's practice, a 5 a — ofall its new found gadzets, THE J" WRITE ALL THIS LYING IN - a i) a BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF ANY | A HOSPITAL BED during my = SE SS The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News ___ The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Daily World The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People’s World Examiner (Washington) L. A. FREE PRESS p.3 Date Se yoo- YF pr