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Word: birnkrant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1959-1959
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Double Degrees. In October (its first month), the hospital had twelve patients (only five inpatients), got up to 21 in November, then slumped to three a week this month. Clinical Director Robert J. Birnkrant, who is both an M.D. and a D.D.S., notes that operating costs run to $43,000 a month. Unless dental cowards-and professionally conservative dentists-fill some of the hospital's cavities soon, the pioneering venture will have to be abandoned. Only the stockholders cannot lose: the building would make a quick hit as a specialized medical hospital, e.g., for ear-nose-throat cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cavities Unlimited | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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