Letters: Feb. 28, 1969

On the Scaffold

Sir: An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but what brings him to you when he is needed? Your cover story about the condition of U.S. medicine [Feb. 21] is an answer to the tired taxpayers', angered insurance policyholders' and bedraggled yet interested citizens' prayer! Up to this point, religion, politics, sex, and especially education have been placed on the American scaffold. What makes medicine sacrosanct? Bravo for the expose of both the overworked, underpaid members of the medical profession and the utter lack of recourse of nearly...

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