Word: clinicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thanatophobia (fear of death). To them death is the enemy and its victory a personal defeat from which they naturally turn away. In addition, indications are that many doctors had above-average anxiety about death in their childhood, and Dr. Herman Feifel, psychologist at the Los Angeles Veterans Clinic, speculates that this is why they became doctors in the first place...
Died. Marie McDonald, 42, Hollywood performer and former Tommy Dorsey vocalist built up by press agents as "The Body," who made it big in the tabloids with endless escapades-six marriages, escape from an Australian psychiatric clinic, a suspicious kidnaping; from as yet undetermined causes; in Hidden Hills, Calif...
...Cain understandably called in a Mayo Clinic surgical team whose members he knows well and with whom he has learned to work smoothly. Chief Surgeon George A. Hallenbeck, 50, son of a former Mayo physician, is a man of whom his wife says: "His outstanding quality is that he is always composed under stress"-a quality that was highly useful when he slit open the belly of the President of the United States at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. To assist him in the operation, Dr. Hallenbeck brought his Mayo colleague, Dr. Donald C. McIlrath, 36. Behind his distinguished...
Live Without It. X rays ordered by the White House physician, Vice Admiral George G. Burkley, confirmed his suspicion of a poorly functioning gall bladder. A second set of X rays, forwarded to the President's longtime friend and personal physician, the Mayo Clinic's Dr. James C. Cain, gave added evidence that the gall bladder contained stones. Since some bile always passes directly through the common duct from the liver to the duodenum, and the duct seems able to develop some storage capacity of its own, man can live without his gall bladder. Thus surgery to remove...
...saving lives, be warned: during your first two years, you will have to put with an immense amount of complicated, tedious "pure" science, which you will certainly find irrelevant and unbearable. It's not easy to generalize about whether students benefit from the indoctrination when they get into the clinic in their last two years: some do, some...