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W H Mosberg

Publications and source records attributed to W H Mosberg.

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PubMed1979

Ten years of national health service in Canada.

Ten years ago the medical profession in Canada was conscripted into a compulsory national health insurance scheme without any prior consultation. Predictions that an open-ended, so-called "free" medical insurance scheme would lead to cost overruns and deterioration of medical services as well as inflationary trends have come true. Federal and provincial governments now attempt to contain costs by closing active treatment beds or filling them up with chronic patients and by attrition of existing facilities. Compulsory national health insurance has not led to lower morbidity nor greater longevity. It has only provoked an insatiable demand from the public for more "free" services, with the result that the system has become a quagmire of cost overruns and unfulfilled and unrealizable promises.

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PubMed1976

Twelve-year "cure" of lung cancer with metastasis to the brain.

In managing lung cancer with metastasis to the brain, the clinician must decide whether to treat the primary lesion, the metastasis, neither, or both. A patient enjoying a useful survival of five years or more following treatment may be regarded as apparently cured. This patient was functioning normally twelve years after surgical treatment of the brain and lung lesions. Lung cancer with metastasis to the brain is not always a hopeless situation; occasionally a patient will derive great benefit from treatment.

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