Word: clinicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government that had so long scorned Boris Pasternak, now gave grudgingly of its best to save him. An oxygen tent was rushed to rambling, weatherbeaten Dacha No. 6 in Peredelkino, 15 miles from Moscow. Professor Nikolai Petrov, a cancer specialist from the Kremlin clinic, strove desperately to win a few more hours from eternity with another blood transfusion. Pasternak asked wearily: "Is it necessary...
...Michael Oravec was today given a clean bill of health [at a medical clinic]. The doctors were unable to find any evidence of his having been 'kicked and slugged' at any time in the past few days, as claimed, and stated that he was in excellent physical condition. A slight abrasion was noted on one knee, acquired, however, more than 24 hours after the time of the claimed injuries. Even this was X-rayed-with negative findings. The examination was at Oravec's request. He also selected the clinic...
Died. Dr. Ida S. Scudder, 90, third-generation American medical missionary of the Reformed Church in America, who dedicated her life to the fight against plague, cholera and leprosy, and who in 1918 started in Vellore, India what is today one of Asia's foremost clinic-medical schools, with current support coming from more than 40 missions;* of a circulatory ailment; in Kodaikanal, India...
Returning to Manhattan from his jungle clinic in northern Laos, Dr. Thomas Dooley, 33, cofounder of MEDICO (Medical International Cooperation), issued a glowing report that the program is now rolling strong in ten countries: "Local governments put up the hospitals and we are simply the people who run them." Asked about recent criticism that he is a publicity seeker, Dr. Tom quoted from "an old Chinese proverb": "When one lift head above crowd, bound to receive rotten fruit." Then Tom Dooley entered a Manhattan hospital to continue his own personal fight against disease, got a complete checkup on his progress...
Shakedown. The Corktown Guild and the Co-op are not the only instances of Holy Trinity help and selfhelp. There is a "foot clinic" run by Chiropodist Earl G. Kaplan in his spare time, a dental clinic operated by volunteers from the Detroit Society of Dental Hygienists, a legal clinic manned by top lawyers. There is a Filipino Club, a Puerto Rican Club, a chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous (membership: 1,000), a St. Vincent de Paul Society, a credit union that started with $80 in 1947, now has assets of $147,000; there is even a two-night-a-week...