The Challenge of Disability to Medicine

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Physical disability affects the health, welfare, and economic status of many individual Americans. Organized medicine and official health agencies must develop methods designed to preserve functional capacity and delay the onset of disability. Basic medical research, good clinical practice, and extensive rehabilitation services should be made available to protect and maintain individual health and efficiency. The physician has a responsibility to provide complete medical services which must be correlated with nonmedical community functions. When illness or injury prevents an individual from working for 30 days or more he often needs some financial assistance. Physical disability thus places burdens on the community. The medical profession must become interested in stimulating the improvement and expansion of prepayment insurance plans to prevent disability and to reduce its effects.

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