Word: clinicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legs could be motorized and computerized, perhaps linked to the brain, so that the wearer will find his impulse translated into action. Medical men foresee fetuses grown outside the uterus (in case women want to be spared the burdens of pregnancy) and human tissues grown to specifications. The Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Willem J. Kolff prophesies "artificial skin with all the appendages built in, such as ears and nose." How they would look is a cosmetic problem that the doctors dismiss with a shrug...
...usurpation of it for money." She demanded a long list of changes in the book. The author and the publisher agreed to many of them, but Hotchner flatly refused to delete the last chapter, which recalls how he urged Mary to transfer her husband from the Mayo Clinic to a specialized psychiatric hospital, how she refused, fearing what effect the publicity might have, and how, on July 2, 1961, Hemingway put the muzzle of a shotgun in his mouth and blew the back of his head...
Venturi entered the Mayo Clinic, where surgeons sliced through the ligaments on the backs of both hands to free his pinched nerves. On the strength of his showing last week, the operation was a success. He had to wear gloves on both hands between shots and use hand warmers besides, but he fired an eleven-under-par 273 to win the Lucky by one stroke and collect his first winner's check-$8,500-in almost two years. "It's nice," he said, "to be back among the players...
...turned into a tough administrator who managed to excite his faculty even while driving it hard, yet remained folksy enough to coax money out of a rural legislature. A new four-year medical center opened in 1956, now trains 316 students, treats 10,000 hospital patients and 65,000 clinic patients a year. Ellis worked to promote a $75 million state bond issue in 1956, a third of it going to finance 17 new buildings. His energetic lobbying helped boost operating funds from $18 million to $82 million a year. In the same period, money devoted annually to university research...
Chafetz, who also directs an alcohol clinic at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, wants to show students "how different the reponse will be when drink is sipped slowly rather than gulped; how different the response will be when drink is consumed with food and while sitting in a relaxed atmosphere, in contrast to drinking without food and standing in tense circumstances; how the use of alcohol provides meaningful experience when partaken with another, while a drink alone is as uncommunicative as talking to oneself; and how intoxication is sickness and not strength...