Word: clinicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blood-colored movies and in the flesh, Dr. Norman A. Christensen of the Mayo Clinic urged his colleagues at the A.M.A. to embark on a crusade. What he wants is nothing less than an all-out campaign to eradicate tetanus in the U.S. by having every man, woman and child immunized with toxoid and periodic booster shots...
...cradle her husband. Stretchers were brought out and both men were placed on them. Jackie, her skirt and stockings blotched by blood, helped get the President out of the car and, her hand on his chest, walked into the hospital beside him. Lyndon Johnson walked into the emergency clinic holding his hand over his heart, giving rise briefly to rumors that he had either been wounded or was suffering from a heart attack. Neither was the case: Lyndon was simply, profoundly stunned...
...anyone is in a position to assess the problems of U.S. psychiatry today, it is Kansas' Karl Augustus Menninger. He was a co-founder and has long been chief of staff of the Menninger Clinic, the world's most famed hospital for the mentally ill and its most fertile field for psychiatrists in training. He has interpreted psychiatry to the laity in such noted books as The Human Mind, Man Against Himself, and Love Against Hate. Now, in The Vital Balance (Viking; $10), Dr. Menninger not only spells out what he thinks is wrong with psychiatry; he also...
Back in Topeka with his physician father, and soon joined in their clinic by Younger Brother William (TIME cover, Oct. 25, 1948), Karl Menninger began what has proved to be a fruitful lifetime of thinking radical thoughts and making sure that mental illness goes "that way." At 70, he remains an apostle of hope; he feels that all victims of mental illness are treatable and that most can make a good enough recovery to go back to their homes and jobs. If more psychiatrists and other physicians had a more hopeful attitude, they would give more effective help to more...
...process, continuous infusion of anti-cancer drugs into arteries or veins is usually necessary, requiring a stay of days or weeks in a hospital, at great economic and emotional cost to the patient. But now, Dr. Elton Watkins Jr., inventive director of surgical research at Boston's Lahey Clinic, has devised a compact, clockwork-driven pump that weighs only three-fourths of a pound and can be hung on the patient's chest like a hearing aid. Inside Dr. Watkins' contraption, a plastic reservoir contains about an ounce of anti-cancer drug, usually Methotrexate. The clock motor...