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...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...
...rebels in the A.M.A.'s own ranks were not reassured. New York Clinician Ernst P. Boas loosed a blast for the Physicians' Forum, which favors the Fair Deal's national health plan. The dues levy, said he, "is against the interests of a majority of Americans, who need a national prepayment system of medical care ... It will convert the professional organization of America's physicians into a political lobby...
...clinician" who presented most of the data was Harold Nicolson, urbane British author, onetime diplomat and M.P. To nail the "popular fallacy" that creative writers are prone to be sickly, psychopathic, and "doomed to an untimely death," Nicolson examined the health and lives of Britain's literary great. "Since of all writers poets are . . . the most 'creative,' I . . . concentrate my observations upon the behavior and temperament of poets." Some of his findings...
...Welch went to Johns Hopkins as first full-time member of its medical faculty. His friends in New York tried to persuade him not to bury himself in a little, unknown Baltimore school. But the little school attracted not only young Dr. Welch but such giants as famed Clinician William Osier, Surgeon William Stewart Halsted, Gynecologist Howard Atwood Kelly. It grew with them to world fame...