Word: checkups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Mrs. Weiss and the others, in fact, American officials treated the pilots with gingerly care all the way home. In Moscow, the American charge d'affaires, Adolph Dubs, met the flyers, issued them new passports and offered overnight accommodations at the ambassador's residence, a medical checkup and free transportation home. He could scarcely have done any less. The pilots declined, explaining that they did not wish to jeopardize the possible release of other prisoners by violating Hanoi's conditions...
Typical of the Navy's approach, Little Creek treatment combines strictness and sympathy. Navymen, assigned there either by doctor's orders or by request, are welcomed aboard with an orientation lecture and a physical examination. Then, provided that the checkup discloses no other medical problems such as high blood pressure or heart disease, they are started, sometimes for life, on daily oral doses of Antabuse, a drug that causes the body to react violently to alcohol. Those who drink after taking Antabuse usually experience a variety of unpleasant effects: stomach cramps, nausea, rapid heartbeat, sweating and chest pains...
...individual can make an appointment for a checkup at the Health Maintenance Center, but for the present, says Co-Director E. Stevens De-Clerque, the operation will rely mainly on employee groups contracted by their companies. First, the candidate must fill out a 378-item questionnaire on his own and his family's medical histories. That chore over, things are made as easy as possible for him. His questionnaire is fed into a computer. If the electronic brain finds inadequate or conflicting answers, it demands: "More data!" The computer prescribes the test schedule for each individual patient, based...
Office appointments stacked up until they sometimes reached an impossible 50 a day. To avoid having patients wait in vain for several hours, he often had those who needed just a routine checkup wait at home. Then he would summon them-occasionally late at night-when an opening in his schedule occurred. He knew that he had too many patients and admits now: "I wasn't strong enough to say no." Nor was he able to find a colleague to share the practice...
...will lock, the car accelerate wildly, and the brakes fail. There have been numerous crashes but no known fatalities; most drivers have remained cool enough to switch off the ignition and come to a stop. Toms' public warning advises owners to take their cars to dealers for a checkup...