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CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
in the Emergency Hospitalization Fund, and shall remain deposited at interest to
increase for the benefit of the fund. A balance kept over from one year will be used
to render emergency medical aid to the students in later years. It is probable that the
plan can be liberalized by the building up of the Fund in this manner.
5. Students are not required to accept the services of the Institute Physician, but
may choose physicians and surgeons privately. Whomever they choose, whether the
Institute Physician or not, they must pay for such services themselves without reference
to the Emergency Hospitalization Fund.
6. The responsibility for securing adequate medical attention in any contingency,
whether an emergency or not, is solely that of the patient. This is the case whether
the patient is residing in one of the Student Houses, the Athenzum, or off the
Institute grounds. Apart from providing the opportunity for free consultation with
the Institute Physician at his office on the Institute grounds between 12:30 and
1:30 p.m. daily, unless otherwise stated, except Sunday, during term time, the
Institute bears no responsibility for providing medical attention in case of illness.
7. Any expenses incurred in securing medical advice and attention in any case
are entirely the responsibility of the patient. For instance: students who are ill and
confined to their rooms in the dormitories or elsewhere, and are unable to visit the
Institute Physician's office at the Institute, at the regular time, and who call in any
physician, including the Institute Physician, are themselves solely responsible for
the payment of all the bills incurred.
8. The Emergency Hospitalization Fund does not provide for the families of
graduate or undergraduate students. The arrangements mentioned above for these
classes will hold.
9. Donations to the Emergency Hospitalization Fund will be gratefully received.
10. The Faculty Committee on Student Health supervises, and authorizes, expenditures
by the Fund. All questions regarding the administration of this Fund are to
be referred to this Committee. The Committee will review the facts of every emergency
case, and may, if they feel it desirable, recommend an extension of payments
in excess of the maximum amounts prescribed in Section 2 above for specific purposes
cited by the Committee.