Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Arnold Seymour Relman

Professor of Medicine, Social Medicine and Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, Awarded Honorary Fellowship by the New York University School of Medicine

"Health care is being converted from a social service to an economic commodity, sold in the marketplace and distributed on the basis of who can afford to pay it."