Open AccessTHE FAMILY DOCTOR AND THE GENERAL HOSPITAL IN THE ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS CAMPAIGN
Author(s) -
Frank C T Smith
Publication year - 1921
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.11.6.534
Subject(s) - tuberculosis , medicine , family medicine , medical care , pediatrics , pathology
What has been done in 38 years of treatment of tuberculosis, according to this author, is merely to care for some of the sick. We have utterly failed in prevention. The problem is not to be solved by the few specialists, but by enlisting the many medical practitioners and opening the general hospitals to cases of tuberculosis.