Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This evening I borrowed (or stole, as you will) from the Corbett Clinic, 1380 W. Lake St., syringe, needle and MS [morphine sulphate] bottle (20 cc) containing about 8-10 cc of MS ¼ per cc, the latter coming from an adequately guarded locker, so that my possession of same should not reflect on the clinic, where I have taken temporary employment...
...Last Resort. Because few companies have adequate facilities to give exhaustive examinations, many send executives to such outside clinics as Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, Boston's Lahey Clinic and New York's Life Extension Examiners. For many hard-driving executives, however, the prospect of spending three days idling in bed is too deadly an ordeal. To take care of them, there is an entirely new kind of clinic, where prescriptions are mixed with...
Most lavish is the Greenbrier Clinic, set up in a wing of the Greenbrier Hotel in 1948 by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. Now, 45 big companies send their executives to the Greenbrier periodically for a leisurely, three-day checkup on the company (cost: $100, plus hotel-room charges). Executives may take their wives (many clients foot the hotel bill for wives too) and play golf or swim between medical examinations. Said the wife of one recent visitor: "The only time in years I have spent so long with my husband at one time was when he was at the Greenbrier...
William O'Dwyer, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and now a Mexico City émigré, was in a Beverly Hills clinic with "an old thyroid condition that needs checking every so often...
...most valuable and widely used antibiotics can cause death if the physician employing them is not careful, warned the Mayo Clinic's Dr. P. T. Sloss. The trouble is most likely to develop on the fourth day of treatment with aureomycin or terramycin. The drugs kill many of the bacteria normally found in the intestine, and give a chance for resistant strains of staphylococci to multiply and poison the system. In such cases (so far, rare), the patient gets symptoms like those of cholera, and will die in a day or two, Dr. Sloss said, unless the drugs...