Afro-American courier., 1939-11-01
Mro-American Sons q Daugh RS Hospital Asset To Race
DR L. + MILLER PERFoRMs 572 oPERAT10Ns THUS FAR

With few EXCEPTIONS people will give up everything
to live This fact makes the medical profession the
important of all professions.
During the year Dr. Miller and DR.. Fullilove have
treated hundreds of patients for major and minor
plants. DR.. Miller has performed than five hundred
and seventywo operations say nothing of the broken
bones put back together backaches headaches and the
thousand other things humans afflicted with, all
mended and the patients back their regular duties
The death rate among Negroes is higher than it
among other Just because they do receive
medical attention. If people could have the things
to life, the death would be considerably
lower. Dr. Miller, his co-workers and the Aro-Amercan
Sons Daughters leading the march toward better
health for people SO often the medical at
tentlon, disqualification. under trained have
been much this pribege only for the wealthy.
People who were not able to the of getting we'll
Just had to die In recent however attention
been turned efficient disqualification at low cost An
article in the Readers Digest gives an interesting ac-
count of how certain doctor able build up medi-
cal service wherein people could receive proper medical
attention at low cost. This story is like the program
of the Afro American Sons & Daughters and the work
of DR. Miller feel it worth telling at least in part
Part of the story follows:
"Eleven years ago Dr. H. Clifford Loos prosperous
Los Angeles surgeon laid aside his instruments and
closed his office believing that after
he was finished with the practice of medicine Happily
he Just beginning Today Dr. Loos responsible for
the health Of 10000 patiensbecause he found way to
distribute the cost of medical care so that the lowest
has to offer Dr. Loos thought that for per person
per month he could provide group of regular patients
with every care-tonsultaonS home calls operations
hospital beds, medicines.
Within a month there five hundred subscribers
fer the service 1t up Dr. Loos to make good So
abandoning his intention of taking life asiy, he Joined
in partnership with Dr. Donald E. Ross, employed a nurse,
and opened office known the Ross-Loos Medi-
cal Group.
Last year the Group handled 677313 cases, perform
any of their associates has solicited patient or spent
nickel for Advertising; every patient has been brought
in by wordof-mouh recommendations from satisfied sub
scrber After the first the fee set at $3.50 and
this provided adequately for staff salaries, office
head medical and hospital supplies The clientele has in
creased steadily that the Group maintains ten clinics
in Los Angeles suburbs in addition to the four-sory
main building The original staff of two has grown
sixty-five fume physicians and surgeons Every doc
tor the RossLoos staff draws salary irrespective of
the number patients he The lowest salary paid
is $4,000 year, the highest $4,000
We have given you a part of this story to show what
be done in promoting health when people cooperate
with real physician and surgeon. We have the physician
and surgeon in Dr. Fulilove and DR.. Miller; what
need every Negroes quarter in the state of Mississippi
The amounts of $50 and $3.50 quoted in the story
small indeed, but compare it with the 25c per
month Afros pay for disqualification under expert
medical staff Think how much the organization
could do if every patient treated in the Afro Hospital
would telling others of the service being rendered.
tell how DR. Miller has saved people whose
Sidered hopeless
When diseases, ailments and complaints BATTLE DR..
Miller there very slight chances that medical science
has discovered cure aid the particular For
eleven he has been Chief Surgeon at the Afro
American Sons Daughters Hospital although the hos
pal work alone, full-siZed job for any physician,
he finds time to make few calls. His contribution to
the Afro Hospital has for the hospital state wide
recognition. What would have happened to the many
thousands of suffering people if it had not been for the
medical knowledge of Dir. Miller is sad to be thought
Of however know that the hands of death would have
called many to the Great Beyond
Few places hard to fill as the place of good
physician and surgeon therefore, hope that the places
of our physicians will habe to be filled years to