Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said I have a hopeless cancer of the stomach.' Knowing that the roentgenologist would never have said such a thing, I asked, 'Just what did he say?' and the answer was that on dismissing him, the roentgenologist said to an assistant, 'N.P.' In Mayo Clinic cipher this meant 'no plates,' and indicated that the roentgenologist was so satisfied with the normal appearance of the stomach on the roentgenoscopic screen [fluoroscope] that he did not see any sense in making films. But to the patient, ... it meant 'nothing possible'; in other words...
...makes him the happiest man in the place; Edith Shipton, the sex-starved spinster whose shoddy affair with a headmaster is replaced by genuine love for the implacably good Arthur Bolton, whose family and little shop have been obliterated by a Nazi bomb; Sister Filey, in charge of the clinic, whose female vitality is boundless and unbounded by the usual conventions...
...Walter C. Alvarez, a famed internist at the Mayo Clinic - a tall, twinkly, immensely popular physician with a hard-boiled attitude toward illness - last week wrote a prescription for one of the prime problems of wartime medicine, too few doctors with too many civilian patients. The prescription offered by Dr. Alvarez in the A.M. A. Journal: dispose of patients faster by abler diagnosis. Its two chief ingredients: 1) distinguish between the really sick and the chronic complainers; 2) use a few. shrewd questions, which often yield a better diagnosis than elaborate laboratory tests...
Building the Road. Until the war came, Seagrave's worst worry was malaria. Nearly as worrisome were the narrow, precipice-hugging, sandy or muddy roads, which hampered his movements when he wanted to visit an outpost clinic. He was glad to see the building of the Burma Road, but that was heartbreaking too. "Even on that short stretch of road there must have been 10,000 coolies at work. The hillsides were black with them: Chinese, Shans, Kachins. Huge goiters hampered their work. Dozens were lying by the road shaking with fever. In the rockiest parts coolies were tediously...
...puzzling jaw case, the dentist stepped forward. "I let him go to it with a sigh of relief. By George, that fellow certainly knew his job! By the time he had finished I had something I could really drape that face over." Captain Grindlay from Harvard and the Mayo Clinic appeared. At first he seemed disgruntled to be put under a missionary doctor with native nurses. But he proved an excellent, tireless surgeon and gradually lost his standoffishness...