Word: blackburne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doctors claim that they are only asking for the city to fill present vacancies so they will no longer be forced to perform duties usually handled by nurses and lab technicians. "They haven't taken us at all seriously," Dr. Daphne Blackburn, one of the picketers, said yesterday. "They've looked upon us as a group of students instead of physicians," she added...
...Blackburn charged the city was taking unfair advantage of the transient state of the doctors and interns by stalling contract negotiations...
...School researchers are currently conducting animal experiments in an effort to isolate the effects of the potassium deficiencies that may result from unsupervised adherence to a new "fad" diet--predigested liquid proteins--Dr. George L. Blackburn, director of the nutrition support service at New England Deaconness Hospital, said yesterday...
...Blackburn and three other researchers began the experiments on rats this fall following the deaths of 12 persons using the liquid protein weight-loss diet. Blackburn said yesterday he believes potassium deficiencies were partly or wholly responsible for the deaths...
Vitamin and mineral supplements must be taken with the liquid protein, which does not contain them, Blackburn said. The protein is safe, but exclusive consumption of the liquid for long periods of time may result in serious mineral deficiencies, Blackburn said...