Word: andersen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate." Decency and doggedness-traits that served him well when he first ran for Congress in 1956, traveling the dusty side roads for one-to-one meetings in farmhouses and general stores. Taken singly, the encounters were insignificant; taken together, they meant the margin of victory. Recalls Journalist Harl Andersen, who covered the campaign for the Associated Press: "George only builds a stone at a time. After a while, though, it begins to show up." In 1962 he moved on to the Senate, winning a seat by only 597 votes...
...your article "Occupational Hazard" [Nov. 1] you referred to the story The Emperor's New Clothes and claimed it was first described by Hans Christian Andersen in 1837. This is entirely incorrect. From our current study of Spanish literature, we know that the idea for The Emperor's New Clothes was first conceived by Don Juan Manuel, who lived from...
...give credit where it is due: Hans Christian Andersen noted, "We are indebted to the Spanish author, Prince Don [Juan] Manuel, for this amusing idea...
First described by Hans Christian Andersen in 1837, ECS can affect anyone who practices medicine. But Gross reports that the disability is more common among interns, residents and assistant department chiefs than it is among new medical students and professors. The symptoms are easily recognized. In a typical case, the chief of a hospital service will examine a patient and announce that he hears, for instance, a heart murmur. None of the interns or residents accompanying him can detect it until the senior resident-who has much influence over the trainees' futures-announces: "I hear it." Then the disease...
...diagnostic ability in the physician but "perpetual wrong disease labeling" in his patient. Fortunately, ECS is completely preventable. Gross's recommended prophylaxis: skepticism. Physicians should rely on their own observations, not on those of their colleagues. Nor should they hesitate to be like the child in the Andersen story and admit that the Emperor is naked. Such an attitude, says Gross, leads to hyperimmunity...