Word: allergists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Still, family practitioners maintain that they can diagnose and treat 95% of all ailments they encounter -usually at lower cost. Many medical educators agree. Says Dr. Richard H Moy, dean of the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, which trains F.P.s: "If you are sneezing and go to an allergist, he may give you a couple hundred dollars' worth of allergy shots...
...those with allergies, the change is almost catastrophic. "In March, this office just pours over with people having trouble with mulberry pollen," says Tucson Dr. L. Winston Martin. Adds Allergist Dr. Rueben Wagelie: "Bermuda grass thrives in this climate and gives off pollen from February to October." Although the doctors are struggling to alleviate their patients' distress, the only real cure is the one Mrs. Sturgis chose in 1953-flight. The plight of the allergy sufferers arouses little compassion in Jack Taylor, owner of three thriving Tucson nurseries: "The pollen isn't any problem...