American physicians who believe that U.S. medicine is the world's best in all departments got a jolting report this week from a research psychiatrist who spent five weeks in Russia last summer, concluded: "The care of mental patients in the Soviet Union is superior to our own in a number of important respects."
Dr. Nathan S. Kline, 43, research director at New York's Rockland State Hospital, told the New York Academy of Sciences that whereas the U.S. is woefully short of doctors for the mentally ill, the Soviet Union comes close to meeting ideal...
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