Word: clinicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Palo Alto Clinic. It runs several plans, including one open to Stanford University students and faculty, makes money with enough left over for experiments. It is now starting a pilot plan for 500 over-65 couples, offering full medical, surgical and hospital care for $20 a month...
Many pathologists never see a live patient; instead, they peer through a microscope at an excised piece of him. Larson is too social-minded for that sort of remoteness. Hired in 1924 to work at the Quain & Ramstad Clinic in Bismarck, he was North Dakota's only private-practice pathologist. He made his professional mark in diagnosing tumors, but felt that "pathologists should get out of the basement and see patients and examine them if necessary. They should be real consultants." A.M.A. duties keep him away from Bismarck more and more, but Dr. Larson still takes pride...
...have abandoned their blackboards. In six years, 5,107 doctors, dentists and veterinarians left the country. Among last week's crop of refugees were an airport director, the technical director of the big nationalized steel plant at Thale, and the chief doctor of Leipzig University's surgical clinic (his predecessor fled to the West seven months...
Died. Dr. Arnold Lucius Gesell, 80, silver-haired, scholarly psychologist who founded Yale's Clinic of Child Development in 1911 to study abnormal children, soon realized that too little was known about normal children, spent the rest of his life observing them and writing about them in more than 25 books; of pneumonia; in New Haven. Conn. In his three best-known works. Infant and Child in the Culture of Today, The Child from Five to Ten and Youth: The Years from Ten to Sixteen, which were translated into 25 languages, Gesell explained behavior patterns from cradle through adolescence...
...MONTH OF SUNDAYS, by Louis Kronenberger (186 pp.; Viking; $3.75), is a witty farce with only a semblance of plot: Mrs. Vizard opens hostilities against Mrs. Bannerman because the latter serves Brown Betty for dessert. The scene is Serenity House, a resort version of Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, whose guest list makes the crowd at Bleak House look like a convention of bond salesmen. There are, among others, the social arbiter Mrs. Cortelyou ("When above 79th Street, do as they do above 79th Street"); the warring psychiatrists Dr. Onan L. Digges ("the Saniflush of the Unconscious") and the "Freudy...