Your Dollar's Worth; Medical Care: Where Does It Hurt?

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Title:
Your Dollar's Worth; Medical Care: Where Does It Hurt?
Description:
Medical care in America is a catastrophe, a failure of planning and failure of courage, a leading physician contends on NETs Your Dollars Worth Medical Care: Where Does It Hurt? Too many physicians have become alienated from the object of their profession the individual in a society, states Dr. Quentin Young, chairman of the Medical Commission for Human Rights. Your Dollars Worth addresses itself to the quality of care in the worlds richest country, noting that the medical profession itself rates 40 percent of its services as inferior. In examining the assets and liabilities of this $30 billion business, the episode observes a general practitioner on Marthas Vineyard, Mass., the teaching hospital and emergency ward at New Yorks Bellevue Hospital, the clamor and misery at Harlem Hospital (NY), the experimental pre-paid Teamsters Comprehensive Care Plan, and the ward for boarder babies at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, NY. It also hears from critics of the American medical system many of whom lament this countrys high infant mortality rate and the incidence of such diseases as tuberculosis among Americas poor. They include Dr. Donald Fredrickson, district health officer, New York City Health Service; Dr. Martin Cherkasky, director, Montefiore Hospital, New York; Martin Gross, author of The Doctors; Dr. Peter Caldwell, Bellevue; and New York surgeon Dr. Samuel Standard. Your Dollars Worth Medical Care : Where Does it Hurt? is a production of National Educational Television. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) This month series is devoted to informing consumers of best buys, frauds, practices and marketing in such fields as patent medicines, hard good (e.g. autos, washing machines, refrigerators, televisions, etc.) and also explores the areas of insurance and medical care. In 1966 NET produced a 4-episode series called Dollars and Sense, which then changed its name to Your Dollar's Worth and continued to air from 1966-1970. The episodes of Your Dollar's Worth were originally recorded on videotape in both color and black and white. Episodes 5 - 16 ran about 30 minutes each. Episodes 17 - 36 ran about 1 hour each. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Production company:
National Educational Television and Radio Center
Interviewee:
Young, Quentin
Host:
McCutchen, Richard
Interviewee:
Gross, Martin
Interviewee:
Fredrickson, Donald
Interviewee:
Cherkasky, Martin
Interviewee:
Standard, Samuel
Editor:
Stein, Paul
Producer:
McCarthy, Harry
Interviewee:
Caldwell, Peter
Producer:
McGhee, Peter S.
Author:
McGhee, Peter S.
Date:
November 1967
Format:
Film/Video
Genre:
Documentary
Location:
Library of Congress
Collection (local):
American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection
Series:
Library of Congress > Your Dollar's Worth
Subjects:
Consumer Affairs and Advocacy
Health
Extent:
00:59:20.057
Link to Item:
http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-2f7jq0tk2m
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Notes:
Episode Number: 18