1940

U.S. Hospitals: “At the very least, a well-equipped hospital of 1940, even if it served only 10,000 people, required good laboratory and X-ray services; but a radiologist needed a population of 60,000 to earn a living, and a pathologist 100,000. Half of all hospitals had fewer than 50 beds, too small to offer a full range of care in the specialties – and there were marked disparities in the receipt of hospital care by biography and size of the area” (Stevens II, 194).