Word: checkups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kaiser multiphasic checkup con sists of 20 computer-oriented tests given by a team of technicians, nurses and machines. The patient arrives with a medical-history questionnaire already filled out. He picks up a clipboard full of IBM cards, strips to the waist, dons a paper hospital gown and takes off on his rounds. Pulse rate, blood pressure, lung capacity, breath rate and strength, reflexes, urine, eyesight and hearing, all get a quick but thorough going-over...
...twin-engine DC-3 lifted from the runway just after 5 p.m. and headed out over the Pacific for Hawaii. Barely an hour out, the World War II-vintage ship developed what sounded like engine trouble, and returned to San Francisco's International Airport for a thorough checkup. No problem was found, and at 11:30 p.m. it set out again. At 3:40 a.m., 525 miles out, there was trouble once more. The pilot radioed a passing airliner that loss of oil was forcing him to feather an engine and return to San Francisco. The morning papers reported...
...when the 70-year-old patient, staying overnight in Walter Reed Hospital for a routine early-morning checkup, swung his legs from under the covers to get up. Drowsy and unaccustomed to the high hospital bed, Everett Dirksen went sprawling onto the vinyl floor of his third-floor V.I.P. suite, instantly felt a pain shoot along his hip. The diagnosis: a fracture of the right femur...
...abnormality, and specifically whether a man has recently had a heart attack, it has limited predictive value-a fact made dramatically clear in the case of Lyndon B. Johnson, then Majority Leader of the Senate, who had a severe heart attack in 1955 just the day after a routine checkup had yielded a normal...
...checkup every six months can out deaths in half, he stated, a nationwide system of manditory inspection "with teeth in it" could lower the rate even further...