Fraternity-Testvériség, 1964 (42. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1964-07-01 / 7. szám

FRATERNITY

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MEDICAL DIRECTOR’S REPORT

TO THE XXVII CONVENTION OF THE HUNGARIAN REFORMED FEDERATION OF AMERICA ASSEMBLED IN 1964

Dear Brethren in Convention Assembled!

The time is here again when we have to report to you on our quadrennial activities, to you, as the duly elected representatives of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America. We give an account not only to point to progress, to results good or poor, but also to demonstrate the consideration, and the ways and means we have used in solving old and new problems, and in recognizing new goals.

This will enable you to envision the life and the problems of our Federation behind the numerical data of our reports and enable you as legislators to make decisions for the future easier and more efficiently on the basis of our reports and along our propositions.

It is in this spirit that I, as Medical Director of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America, wish to tender my quadrennial report to you as postulated by paragraph 47 of our By-Laws.

The data of my report do not speak directly of dollars but the financial security of our Federation undoubtedly is closely related to the competence, vigilance and objective judgement of the Medical Director. His opinion is of decisive significance in the accepting of new members, in the evaluation of claims for sick benefits, hospitalizations, for surgical and many other benefits. In this respect the Supreme Council gave me a free hand from the very beginning. Among other things, this confidence has greatly influenced me to work out the best possible methods of obtaining the data and information which are indispensable in making the above mentioned decisions.

The necessary or rather indispensable medical data are obtained partly by medical examiners’ reports and partly by non-medical questionnaires. Both the medical and non-medical forms were planned by me with the utmost care and circumspection. During the last four years newer types of insurances were introduced, which required new forms and questionnaires.

Our questionnaires are good and reliable. Of course, the best questionnaire has very little or no value unless all the questions are properly answered by the medical examiner or the applicant.

Physicians generally are not very enthusiastic about such paper work, especially when they have to complete forms rather carefully for smaller