Word: clinic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Good v. Great. Given the proper training, most surgeons are competent. Many are extremely good, and a few are great. What makes the difference? "To be great." says the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Donald B. Effler. "a surgeon must have a fierce determination to be the leader in his field. He must have a driving ego, a hunger beyond money. He must have a passion for perfectionism. He is like the actor who wants his name in lights...
...best and most important work he does is almost always a team effort. But there in the operating room, his team on hand, his patient anesthetized, all the surgeon's knowledge must be instantly available for decisions upon which life depends. "At a given instant," says the Mayo Clinic's famed Heart Surgeon John W. Kirklin, "everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up." Because of his own contributions to surgery...
Guilt & Anxiety. Set up to treat 196 serious cases, Abteilung 10 admits the children in batches of 30. Each child lives in the clinic for periods of two to three months. During the last two weeks of treatment, the mother also becomes a resident of the clinic, wearing the same style blue coat that is worn by the 30 specialized .uses and therapists. The children learn to identify their mothers in the same category as the clinic staff, and the parent provides what Dr. Hauberg calls "nest warmth." She becomes an ob ject of treatment herself, sitting in on group...
...miles from Little Rock. He proceeded to put his abundant money and energies into Arkansas' sad economic and cultural life. Among his personal and business achievements: a public school rejuvenation program in Morrilton, including a model elementary school and donations totaling $500,000 for the school district; a clinic in poor Perry County; a campaign that raised $700,000 for an arts center; a homebuilding program that includes Negro communities...
...date, and a good bit of it has gone to make life easier for the ranch hands and peasants in the surrounding countryside. He tripled the wages of his workers (to 12 pesos daily), built a church and model homes for his 50-man ranch crew, added a maternity clinic. Treatment is free to all local campesinos. Abuilding at La Purisima are a 70-pupil school and a drugstore where his workers will get medicines free of charge and local peasants can buy at wholesale prices...