RT Journal
A1 Busey CC
T1 OLd-age pensions for physicians
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD June 19
VO LII
IS 25
SP 2009
OP 2009
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02540510043012
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540510043012
AB To the Editor: 
    —I read with interest Dr. Magruder's letter, published in The Journal, May 22, p. 1682, suggesting the establishment of a national home for aged or infirm physicians. Would not a system of old-age pensions be preferable? Many physicians in need of such a retreat as a national home would provide, could not share its advantages because of distance, illness or domestic reasons. I believe that a pension fund placed in the keeping of a board composed of successful business men, or some trust company, the income from this fund to be paid to such worthy physicians as are in need by reason of old age, illness or accident is what we need.