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...Walter C. Alvarez, a famed internist at the Mayo Clinic - a tall, twinkly, immensely popular physician with a hard-boiled attitude toward illness - last week wrote a prescription for one of the prime problems of wartime medicine, too few doctors with too many civilian patients. The prescription offered by Dr. Alvarez in the A.M. A. Journal: dispose of patients faster by abler diagnosis. Its two chief ingredients: 1) distinguish between the really sick and the chronic complainers; 2) use a few. shrewd questions, which often yield a better diagnosis than elaborate laboratory tests...
Aches & Pains. "Pain is a common symptom of psychoneurosis." When a pa tient announces that "she aches all over," Dr. Alvarez begins to suspect that she is a bundle of nerves. His suspicion is confirmed if she is unable to tell him her main complaint, grumbles about trivialities, trembles, answers his questions irrelevantly, fails to let him finish a sentence...
...Alvarez thinks it fairly certain that the patient is wearing herself out with footless worry...
Stomach cancer, most widespread form of the malady, is not so hopeless a disease as most physicians believe. So wrote the Mayo Clinic's Surgeon Walter Alvarez in The Journal of Digestive Diseases last week. In reviewing "a remarkable study" of 10,980 cases of stomach cancer (compiled by Drs. Waltman Walters, Howard K. Gray, J. T. Priestley) which were treated at the Mayo Clinic from 1907 to 1938. Surgeon Alvarez pointed out that: 1) 24% of all patients who were operated upon recovered completely from the disease; 2) the percentage of cures rose to 60% for those...
...correspondent for the London Daily Mail and Daily Express in World War I, Jane Anderson was Mrs. Deems Taylor, wife of the composer. During the Spanish Civil War (then married to the Marques Alvarez de Cienfuegos) Catholic Digest called her "the world's greatest woman orator in the fight against Communism." To Catholic University's Monsignor Fulton Sheen she was "one of the living martyrs...