this is the beginning of man's universal dialogue with a life line cry that seeks a clear an the beginning of the dialogue is constant and universal another place another time dialogue in the united states of america the city of chicago nineteen hundred and thirty one a day the questions were the same but the answers were different to to stick ted lifespan fifty nine years to the one he was born at home cost to parents fifty dollars cost of medical equipment eighty seven dollars and fifty cents including the black bag in his lifetime a total of one thousand seven hundred dollars for health care mostly out of his own pocket it was a new idea then insurance to help pay hospital bills but practically nobody had it only a generation ago how much has changed within living memory what was the state of our in those good old days health care like everything else didn't cost much two dollars for a house call eleven dollars for a hospital room unfortunate ammonia was common and often fatal infectious diseases were epidemic hospital as well you want to die and the cost of health care was as dreaded as the disease itself of the new idea of ensuring health care still belong to that far off world of tomorrow they dreamed about in the thirty's where is yesterday's world of tomorrow where is the questioning somewhere in the cr an adult now continuing his universal dialogue course health means so many things to so many and just to people about our body is like an instrument the very complicated machine and every organ every vital part is functioning to its most perfect energetic spirit we expect more of it in this generation and with good reason yesterday's fatal diseases are almost gone and a baby born today is three times as likely survive his first year typhoid scarlet fever diptheria only words to our children now now consider the other side of the dial up our knowledge question what does the doctor say formally or in the dark about what we should do when a patient was in i think it's a very good feeling to know that you're going to get a definite result we have a lot of preventive medicine which we never have before i have an explicit and specific therapies that were not available to any of the large choice of antibiotics for the patient today control the therapy of a patient and what we've seen in the last thirty years has been the explosion of science into into medicine i went to medical school in one thousand nine hundred thirty two and i have seen medicine through life expectancy sense a turn of the century has increased about twenty years this is not due to the fact that the errors cleaner or other people are more careful crossing the street this is due to the fact i can tell you about the kinds of illnesses that ten thousand people are going to have what i can tell you is what you're going to have for the individual the only way you can protect themselves is by joining with ten thousand people  a complex today a modern hospital as unlike the hospital of thirty years ago as atomic energy is unlike steam help science achieving control of the un answerable terrors of the past thirty years ago you went to a hospital to die today you go to a hospital to get well the whole public out of who has completely changed on meds and has a tape to go so far as to sa heart and wisdom turned to science and skill compassion to computation experience to instrumentation open heart surgery subjecting the symbolic center of life to man's control the surgeon now preparing for the ultimate dia thirty years ago one man the family's addition would have had compassion and insight he waited for his patient to die today instrument hands and training and research lacking perhaps in bedside manner can act and save now while the surgery is going on there's a team of physicians who are personally feel very strongly