AMERICAN (PROFESSOR RATES SOCTALTZED MEDICINE.
Almont Lindsey, professor of history in the Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, has just published a book that should be studied by everyone interested in socialized medicine, whether pro or con. His weighty volume Socialized Medicine in England and Wales (Oxford University Press) is the most complete survey yet published on the subject.
Prof. Lindsey spent eirht years studying the operation of the National Health Service in LDritain. His conclusion:
"The National Health Service is something magnificent in scope and almost breath-takin; in its implications. . . In the light of past accomplishments and of future goals, the Health Service cannot very well be excluded from any list of notable achievements of the twentieth century."