Rededication at the Bedside
Mettler, F.A.
Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey 61: 458-464
1964
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-7524 PMID: 14199357 Document Number: 9766
The four cardinal goals of healthcare include: (1) To select, educate, and train enough highly qualified young men and women to meet the medical and paramedical needs of a rapidly growing country; to develop programs of continuing education that will bring newer advances to the sick patient as they are tested and found practical; and, in some way, to attract highly qualified physicians away from the medical centers into the smaller communities where their services are badly needed. (2) To study our medical needs in terms of the number and kinds of specialists and family physicians needed and direct our educational program toward meeting these needs. (3) To build and equip hospitals necessary to assure each community the essential modern facilities in which an enlightened professional staff can work. (4) To develop and implement a program of medical care whereby every citizen so desiring may utilize all the necessary medical and hospital resources at a cost that is within his ability to pay, whether it is all or nothing, without embarrassment and in keeping with the human dignity to which all our people are entitled.
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