RT Journal
T1 ORganization section
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD September 16
VO 113
IS 12
SP 1135
OP 1138
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800370051018
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800370051018
AB A NEW FEATURE IN INDIGENT MEDICAL CARE 
    ROLLEN W. WATERSON Executive Secretary, Lake County Medical Society WHITING, IND.The history of medical relief for the indigent sick in Lake County, Ind., is a sordid tale of political intrigue, of investigations and indictments and public scandal . . . of all the abuses and inadequacies the profession has learned to expect when politics, now synonymous with government, gets control of the distribution of medical care. This year, however, certain local changes that are not important to this report have made possible the reorganization of the system, and the plan that has replaced it has reduced the cost of medical relief to approximately half last year's average and permits the indigent patient a free choice of physician.Under the Lake County plan, a referral physician, a member of the Lake County Medical Society and preferably a general practitioner, is appointed to serve each month. He is responsible to the