Medicine: Emergency Call

An idyllic spot on the busy wide highway from New York City to Atlantic City is the small town of Lakewood, N. J. There the flat, pine-wooded New Jersey terrain, its weather tempered by the nearby ocean, makes an ideal health resort for idling oldsters like John D. Rockefeller Sr.

Lakewood is also an ideal location for the Paul Kimball Hospital, for on the 75-mi. span of highway between Freehold, N. J. and Atlantic City there is no other hospital. Cracked-up joyriders keep Surgeon Robert Buermann's staff of 15 doctors and 30 nurses busy...

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