Evening star., 1938-12-20

&. OmceS in defendant The Med
ical Society of the District of Co.
lumbia, and membership on the Ex-
ecutive Committee, were held dur
ing all or part of the period of the
conspiracy hereinafter described by
the individual defendants whose
names are indicated below:
Thomas Edwin Neill, president,
and member of the Executive Com
mittee; Coursen Baxter Conklin,
Secretary treasurer, and member of
the Executive Committee: Robert
Arthur Hooe, member of the Exec
utive Committee: Francis Xavier
McGovern, member of the Execu-
tive Committee; Edward Hiram
Reede, member of the Executive
Committee; William Mercer Sprigg,
member and chairman of the execu-
tive Committee; Wallace Mason
Yater, member of the Executive
Committee.
On Hospital Committee.
8. Membership on the Hospital
Committee OF Defendant the Medi-
cal Society of the District of Colum-
bia was held by the individual de-
PENDANTS listed below during all or
part of the period of the conspiracy
hereinafter described:
Leon Alphonse Martel, John Ogle
Warfleld, jr.; Joseph Rogers Young.
10. Membership on regular or at
tending staffs of the Washington
hospitals was held by individual de-
PENDANTS throughout the period of
the conspiracy hereinafter described,
as follows:
Coursen Baxter Conklin. Chill
drens Hospital of the District of Co.
lumbia, Eastern Dispensary and
Casualty Hospital, George Wash
ington University Hospital; James
Bayard Gregg Gusts, National
Homeopathic Hospital of the Dis
trict of Columbia; Robert Arthur
Hooe, Central Dispensary and Emer-
gency Hospital; Thomas Ernest
Mattingly, Sibley Memorial Hospital;
Leon Alphonse Martel, Georgetown
University Hospital; Francis Xavier
McGovern, Garfield Memorial Hos
pital; Thomas Edwin Neill, Episco-
pal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital,
Garfield Memorial Hospital; Will
liam Mercer Sprigg, Columbia Hos
pital for Women; William Joseph
Stanton, Georgetown University
Hospital: John Ogle Wardeld, jr.,
Childrens Hospital of the District of
Columbia, Garfield Memorial Hospi-
tai; Prentiss Wilson, Columbia Hos
pital for Women; Wallace Mason
Yater. Georgetown University Hos
pital; Joseph Rogers Young, Eastern
Dispensary and Casualty Hospital;
Nv. Background of the Conspiracy.
II. In the last few decades great
and unprecedented advances in med
ical knowledge and technique have
occurred. No single doctor now
knows or can know enough medical
science to enable him to render
complete and adequate medical care
Specialization in the rendition of
medical care has necessarily re-
suited. Costly diagnostic and ther-
apeutic equipment and facilities have
now become essential for the rendi-
ton of complete and adequate medi-
cal care. The cost of complete and
adequate medical care has increased
substantially.
IL. Many persons embraced within
the low-income group in the United
States, including the District of Co.
1g1vSaNfo ntotoio oyH
cannot afford to obtain, complete
and adequate medical care.
Associated in Group.
13. During the last few decades,
many general practitioners and spe-
cialists have associated themselves
together in group practice in order
to reduce the cost and improve the
quality Of medical care by sharing
their knowledge and by making
joint use of equipment and facili-
ties. During the last few decades
attempts have been made to enable
persons in the low-income group
to meet the cost of medical care
on risk-sharing prepayment basis
and thus to avoid excessive economic
burdens occasioned by the uneven
incidence of illness. To achieve
these objectives, organizations have
been formed in which general prac-
titioners and specialists engaged
in group practice undertake to give
complete medical care of high
quality to persons who pay there
for m a risk-sha RING Y,reno vv,oapt
basis.
IA. Experimentation with group
medical practice on q risk sharing
prepayment basis, If not obstructed
by coercive restraints, may contrib
ute to the solution Of the problem Of
providing complete and adequate
medical care. Many surveys of the
problem in recent years. have re-
suited in recommendations for such
experimentation. There is reason to
believe, and . large body Of In.