Word: clinician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vatican. As the storm of censure mounted, the greatest cry was appropriately against the money-hungry doctor rather than the story-hungry press. Milan's daily Il Giorno (circ. 150,000), coming to the astonished realization that the Pope's chief physician was not a tried clinician, asked what was, perhaps, the most startling question raised by the whole furor: "How could Pius XII entrust his health for so many years to a quack...
...last week's British Medi cal Journal, is that Dickens did so with impressive clinical accuracy.* When doctors were just beginning to evaluate physical symptoms and other authors were using vague terms like "brain fever," Dickens "looked on disease with the ob serving eye of the expert clinician ... so that he often gives us accounts that would do credit to the trained physician." Samples...
...Many practitioners have been awed by the terms 'blood transfusions' and 'blood banks,'" said the clinician gravely. "They have felt them to be either too complicated and impractical or too expensive for routine use." The speaker described how easy it is to obtain blood from a donor under anesthesia, and store it for as long as three weeks. "There is no substitute for whole blood," he concluded. "Proper evaluation and correction of the surgical patient's needs will hasten recovery [and] lower the mortality rate...
Donald Powell Wilson spent three years as the San Quentin resident psychologist; the place was a clinician's paradise. In this period Powell found numerous father complexes and gave the "California Test of Mental Maturity" to every convict who wanted a short vacation from arduous tasks. The tangible evidence of Wilson's tenure are a large graph of San Quentin's I.Q.s and, much more valuable and interesting, the prose and film account of his personal experiences within the prison walls...