Word: bortz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Civilian doctors should be organized as medical minutemen, said Dr. Edward L. Bortz, president of the American Medical "Association. Some cities are already making a start; but there should be countrywide organization under a National Emergency Medical Council, set up as an agency of the National SecurityResources Board...
...average American man today can expect to live to be 68; but some doctors think he should live to 150. The lower animals do much better than man. Said Dr. Edward L. Bortz, president of the American Medical Association, last week: a dog is full-grown at two years, lives to an average twelve; a cat is full-grown at ij, lives to ten; a horse, full-grown at four, reaches 25. Reasoned Dr. Bortz: "If a man is physically mature at 25, then he should have an average normal life span of 150 years...
...reasons man does not live a dog's full life is a group of degenerative diseases that attack the heart, kidneys, brain and arteries in middle-and old-age. At least 4,000,000 people in the U.S. now have heart disease, said Dr. Bortz. Unless something is done to stop it, said Dr. Andrew C. Ivy of the University of Illinois, half the babies born in 1940 will eventually die of various types of degenerative diseases of the circulatory system and kidneys...
...bill is only a peacetime measure, and does not touch the vastly greater problem of medical mobilization for a possible World War III. On that problem, the delegates were confronted with a grim report by a special committee headed by A.M.A.'s president, Dr. Edward L. Bortz of Philadelphia...
Philadelphia's Dr. Edward L. Bortz, president-elect of the A.M.A., had a prescription ready for the whole nation: take it easy, get enough sleep and recreation, develop a sense of humor. That way, he thought, the insatiable spirit can be kept from tearing the fragile flesh to pieces. Chicago Heart Specialist Louis N. Katz, who thinks even card games are too strenuous, went further: "Never try competition-not even with your own golf...