Word: clinicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which grinning peasants hoist the engine of a fallen U.S. bomber on their shoulder poles and haul it home in triumph like a captured tiger. About a third of the footage is indignantly anti-American: shots of schoolchildren digging trenches ("an outrage and an imposition"), views of a TB clinic allegedly destroyed by U.S. bombs that overshot a bridge ("You mustn't be ill near a bridge"). Cameron claims in his commentary that U.S. bombings have not significantly weakened the North's economy, and have actually strengthened the people's will to win; his footage supplies little...
...Gould of Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, reconnoitered the presidential larynx, the territory in which they would be operating at dawn. The polyp, about the shape and consistency of a tiny button mushroom, was growing from the right vocal cord. Surgeon George A. Hallenbeck of the Mayo Clinic and Dr. David P. Osborne, a Navy surgeon, examined the presidential abdomen, where a lump the size of a golf ball protruded near the scar left by his gallbladder operation. Then the two groups of surgeons got together in a skull session with the anesthesiologists and the President...
Calming & Relaxing. Awakened just after 5 a.m., the President was soon stretched out on a mobile bed. Into an arm vein, the Mayo Clinic's Dr. Edward P. Didier and an assistant injected a muscle relaxant and a pre-anesthesia dose of a barbiturate to serve both as a mild analgesic and a calming agent...
...comprehensive discussion with a group of authoritative American surgeons who came to the Soviet Union at the same time as Dr. Hall and visited similar institutions, yet their impressions were different. For example, according to Dr. Richard H. Overholt, director of the Overholt Thoracic Clinic of Boston, Soviet surgeons use "all of the modern techniques that we have witnessed in other countries...
...detail of the institute-from anesthetics to esthetics. He ordered a study of what pictures patients like best, and the vote went to the impressionists. So all rooms have two large, high-quality reproductions of a Renoir or Van Gogh, a Degas or Manet. For the children's clinic, decorated with handmade tiles, Stein got a design from the Walt Disney organization...