Word: clinicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thanks to a compulsory hospital-insurance program introduced in 1947, Douglas' mother Donna, wife of a Regina accounting clerk, received prenatal care free; when she leaves the hospital she will simply get a bill marked "Paid." Douglas will be immunized against childhood diseases at a free public-health clinic. If he should become mentally ill, he would get free psychiatric care. If Douglas is orphaned, he will be raised in government-supported foster homes...
...basis of his record so far this year, Arnold Palmer seems certain to Dreak Ted Kroll's record tournament earnings of $72,835.83 in 1956. In addition, gets a minimum of $1,000 an appearance for a golf clinic, a $5,000 salary from the Laurel Valley Golf Club in Ligonier, Pa., up to $2,500 for a TV appearance. Wilson Sporting Goods Co. pays him some $6,500 a year for using its clubs, throws in a bonus of as much as $3,500 when he wins a major tournament...
...Hilary Belloc, son of British Author-Historian Hilaire Belloc, was letting out the anchor of a 36-ft. ketch when the chain tightened, cutting off half of his ring finger. While Belloc went on to the ballpark and got the remaining part of his finger bandaged at the stadium clinic, his 16-year-old son Martin searched in the shallow water, finally found the missing half. It was delivered to the clinic after Hilary Belloc had left, and was placed in a Dixie cup. Outside the park, Belloc heard that part of his finger had arrived back inside, tried...
RHEUMATIC DISEASES. Ten years' experience has shown that hormones of the cortisone family, while giving temporary relief, often do as much harm as good in rheumatic diseases. But the Mayo Clinic's famed Dr. Philip S. Hench, pioneer (with Chemist Edward Kendall) in the extraction and use of these products, struck out on a bold new line. The natural pituitary hormone ACTH and the cortisone-type drugs, he said, must be viewed not only as remedies, but also as research tools. His new theory, based on observations of thousands of patients: it is neither a simple excess...
...routine month. Mount Sinai Hospital and Clinic in Los Angeles would expect one or two postoperative wound infections owing to contamination in surgery. But not one case has turned up in the last six months, and surgeons could feel the reason while they worked. Blowing gently down over them from the operating-room ceiling was a curtain of air that was 99.9% free of germs, including the deadly staph...