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Practice Of Medicine Had Split: ROLPH, rolf, John, Canadian politician and physician: b. Thornbury, England, March 4, 1793; d. Mitchell, Ontario, Canada, Oct. 19, 1870. He studied law and medicine, emigrated to Canada in 1812, and in 1821 was called to the bar. He engaged in law practice and later also practiced medicine. He served in the Assembly of Upper Canada from 1824 to 1837. With William Lyon Mackenzie (1795-1861) he planned the insurrection of 1837 and upon its failure sought safety in the United States. After the amnesty of 1843 he returned to Canada and sat in the Canadian Parliament from 1845 until his retirement from politics in 1857. He afterward devoted himself to the practice of medicine and founded the Peoples' School of Medicine, which later became a faculty of the University of Toronto.
When the survey was attempted again in the early 1960s it was practically impossible to obtain statistically significant results. Partly due to the tremendous breadth and depth of new knowledge in the field of medical science, partly to the wide array of new therapeutic measures, and for numerous other reasons, the practice of medicine had split into about 26 specialties and subspecialties. The practitioners in each of these fields of specialization had their own ideas as to the ten most important drugs, and what was extremely important to one specialty was of lesser interest to another.
Other news of medicine during 1967 and early 1968 reflected a radically changed conception of the practice of medicine in the U.S. The objective was no longer merely the care of the sick but the maintenance of health and the enhancement of the quality of life, not just for individuals but for all of society.
Like all such changes this one was attended by severe growing pains, among them rapidly increasing costs for professional services, an even steeper rise in costs of hospitalization, and a growing lack of physicians and other health personnel qualified to provide comprehensive care. (See Year in Review: PUBLIC HEALTH AND HYGIENE.)
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