Fraternity-Testvériség, 1964 (42. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1964-07-01 / 7. szám
14 FRATERNITY organizations like ours. Quite often even the applicants regard this type of work a mere formality, not realizing how important the submitted information is for the financial security of our Federation and thereby of the membership, too. There can be no compromise in this respect whatsoever! And the validity of this principle is borne out by the following facts: 1. Our mortality statistics are excellent. 2. The financial status of our Federation is solid. 3. Our Sick Benefit Department is sound. 4. Our Hospitalization Department, although is slow in growing, but it does grow. The Medical Director’s work is not confined solely to the procedures of accepting new members and evaluating the increasing number and varieties of claims, for he has many other responsibilities, too, such as: 1. Returns incompletely handled forms to physicians or to applicants for completion. 2. Notifies those who were rejected. 3. In case of death which may look questionable in any respect, he has to be consulted before paying any life insurance. 4. The urines and electro-cardiograms mailed in from the field must be examined by him. 5. He directs the correspondence in connection with the ever-growing claims for hospitalization, surgical, medical, maternity and other benefits, mainly for obtaining adequate information concerning diagnosis, prognosis, hospital stay, various medical bills, etc., etc., without which data it is impossible to figure out the exact and final sum of the benefits. These are touchy and important matters, especially when many a claimant expects more than he is entitled to and would like to get his money immediately. Of course, handling such matters requires a good deal of time, patience and paper work. Besides all these duties, the Medical Director has to be available all the time in order to prevent any delay in issuing insurance certificates and the prompt payment of various benefits. My work was greatly facilitated by the courteous and prompt cooperation of the staff of the Home Office, and of the organizers and field workers everywhere, to whom go my sincerest thanks. In order to facilitate reviewing the workload of the Medical Director’s office, the data of the last four years are hereby submitted as follows: In contra-distinction to the 14,953 papers processed between 1956 and 1959, the Medical Director’s office has handled 11,382 papers between 1960 and 1963, which indicates a return to the level reached before the influx of Hungarian Freedom Fighters in 1956-57. The various papers are grouped as follows:
