your training some of the men during their lunch hour we think maybe we can carry the plan a little further frankly that was what i hope you had mine when you called me you'd see for the past several months i've been doing quite a good deal of research and study on the subject of well i call it industrial medicine i've been trying to find out what's already been done by others it's been most revealing and i might add at times a bit discouraged as i said the idea isn't exactly new people been trying to do something about industrial medicine for hundreds of years only for the most odd very little progress has been made but now the states are passing these workmen's compensation laws that takes care of it doesn't know not exactly mr gray industrial medi stresses the preventive side of sickness and accidents and in the factories the mines in the mill dr randall as far as we're concerned here in this plan just like what you propose specifically i've worked out around a complete program i think this would be a good start first the program would include a complete physical examination for every employee a permanent and well equipped for a stage station in the plant third they should also the minute you know we're running a factory here not a hospital words i think we can go a lot at least part way with you anyway for a start now here's what i said yes beginning next monday morning you'll make regular calls him with a plan say from ten to twelve and we'll fix up a place for you to work and i think there's merit in this idea of the first aid station don't use it well it might work out as a good investment that save a lot of production time and keep the men on the job and as far you know i just got an idea there might be some advantages in this idea of physical examinations of that at least for new employees and i'm glad you think so sure  would weed out a man like harrison begetting if they're on fit and can't do the work why not i'm going to job someplace else save us a lot of grief well i don't think that's quite what the doctor i had in mind anyway i think we a pre employment examination plan and give it a try that or call the doctor and tell him we decided on examinations  gentleman there are obvious in the first place they protect the worker from themselves in other words some people have ailments they don't even suspect in that case i'll advise them to go to their own doctor for treatment but that's only one of the advantages to the examination also protects teleworkers from communicable diseases and so forth but it's just as important to get people placed on jobs that physically capable of doing this way we can make allowances for anybody with a physical handicap not just put  job at least in the ideal way now it's more seriously mater i think it's a practical way to cut down on sickness and accident due to putting some poor fellow on the wrong kind of a job a fellow is healthy he's and i had a phone call this afternoon it was meant for you well that's not unusual that we often get our calls next this was sam gregg and the fact as you're beginning to make a name these are certainly not i merely going to expire i'll only be at the factory for a few hours each morning expanding a factory what about your regular patients you can hardly expect them to come to a doctor who's our fingers and a fact is dead you don't seem to see what it is i'm trying to do it it's what you call industrial medicine and sign up for a very fine and noble but that's not a job for you and i'm proud of my name too and i certainly have no intention of us merging it in any way frankly i don't see why you should see i've told you often enough if you don't care anything about realize what people say they'll call him an unethical incompetent who couldn't get by on private practice that's what they'll say there's nothing on ethical about the work of a good factory doctor you know that that i do not my personal opinion the whole idea is unethical why because you think it's a new one tried not only that you'd be working with some other doctors patients you couldn't feel no way that's not fair i'd never interfere with another doctors r salary and believe me they'll be many times when you have to make decisions based on that very thing which you never even thought about oh i haven't thought about that i haven't had to you will mark my words when i do my even being honest with yourself oh yes i am by basing my decisions on what's best for my patients the community and then the plan in the long run i'll do a better job of serving with a doc in the stock don't just  sincerely believe in the idea of industrial medicine not only in this town but in thousands of plants all over the country well that's not up to you to worry about that's up to the men who run the fact no you're wrong industry want they don't want just surgical repairmen they want don't say anything i can see that you're determined in spite of my disapproval and disappointment and nothing i can say will dissuade right now we can no longer share the same office sorry just a misunderstanding in the beginning the workers themselves resented the physical examination and many submitted only under protest some of the foreman with short sighted and resisted special job placement recommendations for for instance there were cases where a man was suddenly taken sick on the job naturally he was brought to the doctor in the plant or i don't know i just find it interesting  this is when the health records made out at the time of employment examination proved its value as an aid in diagnosis but here the kilns had no relation to the job treatment in this case was outside the responsibility  this was a case where the employee's private physician providing the man had yes this was a problem often to the man would say you know all about my case you're here all the time might as well continue t but then gradually things began to work out a little more smoothly the workers and their families began to recognize the true benefit and respond to the sincerity the medical skill the ethical practices civic collaboration and the good judgment of the factory doctors and even the other doctors in town were beginning to realize that instead of stealing patients away dr randall was actually sending more and more of them to their own physician they gradually realize dr randall was not only improving the health conditions in the factories are working for the benefit and general health of the community as a whole the cloud of misunderstanding was beginning to it sure looked fine and we're mighty glad to have you back goes without saying that i'm glad to be back well it took the war to make us realize that industrial medicine represents another one of the many major problems that we manufacturers still have to solve our medical center was busier than ever before while you were away listening donald an excellent job to he's a mighty fine oh yes years i'd like to keep iran maybe full time because but it's all right with you mr duncan from now on during most of the time i do spend here on the planet i want to concentrate in the industrial hygiene phase is a big job to be done that field less money than i think about all that later though the latter pick up just where you left off you know just give us a few world war had been over four hundred times last night the only contact between kind of randall and his father had been two mothers regular visits with the many difficulties as he had in the pre war days but there was one thing that still troubles was that well shortly actually came back from france he was interviewing applicants for jobs at the plant he was a young return i'm sorry soldier really i am you were sitting down along with the others when i was handing out the application i didn't notice your case or i could have told you there are stages about it but the doctor said i fortunately the doctor doesn't make it not wired for that matter i'm sorry keep your chin up by you'll find something something besides factory work  than on canteen to feel that rehabilitation of the returned soldier with his personal problems did everything possible to help solve it but at that time there wasn't very much he could do you i know about that so then as the years went by he spent more and more time working on the problems of his industrial at and less and less time on the problems of developing a successful private practice  know he was doing something he felt was needed he used to stay up till all hours of the night studied studying books on the causes and prevention of occupational diseases and even books on factory engineering spent a lot of time visiting different plants in all parts of the state studying the health conditions of the workers taking samples of dust of oil bringing them back to his little office laboratory making chemical analyses experiment and later on he made speeches and read papers on the history of occupational diseases to gatherings of industrialists with a vision and father