Commentary: Minimum incomes for healthy living: then, now—and tomorrow?

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I have not seen John Pemberton’s article,1 published in the summer of 1934, before. Qualifying as a doctor from University College Hospital (UCH) in the spring of that year, and typically broke, I departed straightaway to a general practice in the country. There within 3 days, and solo, I was delivering the reluctant wife of the local policeman … Anyhow, I returned safely to UCH in the autumn of that year as House Physician (Resident) to Thomas Lewis, the great Heart man, whose clinical clerk I had previously been in a life-changing experience for close on a year. Soon, some of us, residents and students, started a Socialist Study Group on the future of health services. The Dean, however, would not have any such ‘political activity’, so we renamed it the Hippocratic Club. But John Pemberton in his article seems to have got away with it. I am lost in admiration for this truly pioneer effort.

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