Word: clinicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some a temporary change is enough. And for them the Peace Corps is one route. At 34, Lawyer Richard Enslen left his thriving practice in Kalamazoo, Mich., to head 150 other volunteers in Costa Rica. His wife stoutly enrolled their five children in native schools, went to a missionary clinic to have their sixth. Enslen says that "such service whets your appetite for more." Kalamazoo agrees: last fall the voters elected Enslen in absentia to a municipal judgeship that he has since returned to fill...
...suburban public schools, owned a ten-room house filled with costly art objects. But he felt that he should be treating poor instead of rich patients. Now Kruger has quit Newton, moved to the Mississippi Delta hamlet of Mound Bayou (pop. 1,354), where he runs a federally financed clinic for impoverished Negroes, some of them literally starving. The move cost Kruger $15,000 of his own money, partly for the two trailers in which his family live on a muddy road at the edge of town. His wife earns $3,800 a year teaching remedial reading; as the only...
...until recently, a major difficulty has been for the surgeon to determine in advance where and how big the obstruction was, and so decide how to treat it. That has now been overcome by improved techniques for X-raying the heart's arteries, developed at the Cleveland Clinic by Dr. F. Mason Sones Jr. Relying on these, two of the Clinic's surgeons, Dr. Donald B. Effler and Dr. Rene Favaloro, have performed 51 operations of a new and promising type. They cut out the diseased segment of the coronary artery itself. Then they replace it with...
...apparently the second time that one has ever been viewed in court by a judge in the U.S. But the tape is not likely to be surpassed soon for dramatic impact. In preparation for the second trial, Kid-well's lawyer had sent him to the nearby Menninger Clinic in the hope that he would tell doctors there a clearer story about the murder night than he had yet told anyone else. Psychiatrist Joseph Satten, chief of Menninger's law and psychiatry division, decided to try sodium amobarbital, which, though not a truth drug, can help a patient...
Since 1955, more than 5,000 South African births have been aided at six de compression clinics using Heyns's method. Another clinic is operating in Mexico City, and some 36 national health hospitals in Great Britain have used the device for problem pregnancies and research...