Word: clinician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhazes, famed Arabian clinician of the 9th Century, used successful if violent psychology in treating neurotic patients. He once placed a rich man, who was crippled by rheumatism, in a hot bath. Then, leaving a saddled horse at the front door, he grasped a sharp knife, brandished it in his patient's face and reviled him. Infuriated, the man leaped out of his bath, while Rhazes fled to his horse. The patient was cured, but Rhazes never returned...
...medical scientists, some of whom have not yet achieved medical prominence, are helped by the 77 well-known members of Manhattan's Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Medical Scientists, including Drs. Bernard Sachs, Ernst Philip Boas, John Augustus Hartwell, William Hallock Park, and headed by famed Clinician Emanuel Libman. The Committee, which is nondenominational, administers funds received from the National Coordinating Committee Fund, Inc. in Manhattan, and provides fellowships at U. S. medical schools and hospital laboratories for well-qualified physicians who apply to the schools. In the last five years the Emergency Committee has placed some...
...Chief Clinician...
With focal infection as his theme the Billings Lecturer must be an eminent clinician, a topnotch diagnostician, a wise interpreter of the symptoms which a patient brings to his examination room. Billings Lecturers in the past have included such front-rank men as Dr. Joseph Leggett Miller, professor of clinical medicine at the University of Chicago, specialist in vaccine therapy and rheumatism; Dr. Lewis Atterbury Conner, Cornell professor of medicine, editor of the American Heart Journal; Dr. James Bryan Herrick of Chicago, specialist in diseases of the heart and blood vessels; the late William Sydney Thayer (1864-1932), 1928 president...
...about it." Jailed last week, George Rogalski worked jigsaw puzzles (which he said he could do with his eyes closed) while state's attorneys debated as to whether he could be indicted for murder or kidnapping and manslaughter. He was examined by Dr. Harry Hoffman, Criminal Court behavior clinician. Frank of countenance and looking much like any 13-year-old, George Rogalski talked calmly. In what he called the "most fascinating" study of his experience, Dr. Hoffman pronounced the boy sane, not vicious, a "moral imbecile," a sexual psychopath hopelessly antagonistic to girls of his age and preoccupied with...