The July Atlantic

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THE TROUBLE WITH HOSPITALS

4 Special Supplement

The onset of Medicare will mean medical and financial relief for millions of American citizens, but for hospital administrators, doctors, nurses, and staff personnel it will bring a crushing load of new responsibilities to a system already burdened with critical shortages and shocking flaws.

Why are hospital costs up to $50 a day and going higher? Who pays the bills, and why?

Why the disturbing gap between the bright promise of medical technology and the dismal realities of treatment and care?

What has happened to the emergency ward? Why aren’t the hospitals better run? What ever happened to Tender Loving Care? What is it like to be hospitalized for nearly two years?

These and other aspects of the problems and prospects of American hospitals are examined by a panel of doctors and writers, among them Stephen Becker, Jan de Hartog, Dr. John H. Knowles, Gerald Rosenthal, Dr. Edwin L. Crosby, Matthew Clark.

And a full regular issue including

Education’s Billion-Dollar Baby

Congress has allocated one billion dollars for the improvement of our public schools, but spending the money wisely, Elizabeth Brenner Drew reports, is a task that is perplexing Washington.

Mr. Ferry Feels I ree by Victor Navasky

A survey of the opinions of “Ping” Ferry, who may be America’s most original pomposity-pricker since H. L. Mencken.

My Wild \\ 6St Stories by Erie Stanley Gardner

America’s most widely read author reminisces about the Eastern dudes who provided old-time pulp magazines with their fiction staple, six-gun heroes, and ornery critters who went thataway.