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DR. PAUL KEARNS, STATESVILLE, NC
I'm Dr. Paul Kearns, and I have practiced medicine
here in Statesville since 1954. Before that, I practiced
in other communities in North Carolina and at the North
Carolina Baptist Hospital.
I found in more than forty years in dealing with
people in the field of medicine that it is a very personal
thing to take care of a person who is ill. It is a very
personal thing to deal with a family of a person who is
ill. I haven't had much interest in figures such as these
except when I realize that unless there is somebody who is
taking care of the business aspects of providing hospitals
and beds, diagnostic facilities, we don't have the opportunity
to do for the individual and for the family what needs
to be done in the times of pain and suffering and crisis.
If these provisions are not made in advance, many times
they are too late for a lot of us,
When it comes to the matter of can we afford it? Obviously,
we cannot afford to give the very best care to everybody.
We only want it for ourselves. Let's be honest, we do. You
know, when I'm ill, I want to have the best service. I want
to have a nice room. I want to have the diagnostic facilities,
and even more so, I want that for my wife and for my children.
That's what you want. And we can't have that sort of thing
without planning, and we can't have that sort of thing by
saying we can't afford it.
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