problem o1 a tumor and ignore the patient's diabetes, or
polio or broken arm.

At the same time, medical attention which

is not justified can do more harm than good, because it makes
the people think that there is something seriously wrong
when that is not the case at all.

It creates what is referred

to as the “worried well" syndrome, which has been a serious
problem for the delivery of medical care in this country.
S.R. Garfield, et al., “Evaluation of an Ambulatory MedicalCare Delivery System," 294 New England Journal of Medicine 426
(1976).

The consumption of health care services by those who

are well and nevertheless worried, is a luxury which we
cannot afford in a program of this kind.

Furthermore, it

is simply a way of creating a new and unneeded problem for
the people themselves.
In order for the program to provide for each group and
each atoll that which is appropriate, and no more, the entire

program will have to be carefully and thoroughly integrated
under centralized management.

All four elements of the program

are essential to all of the people concerned, but at the outset
and over time the emphasis of each er several will necessarily

vary.
Program Administration
Although the bill does not prescribe any particular
struture for the management of this radiological program, we

think that it will require both a group to set policy and

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