Word: consultant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Enlargement of the primary mole with subsequent ulceration that may heal incompletely and weep or bleed intermittently. This may lead the patient to consult a physician, who excises the lesion with a good margin of healthy tissue. The wound heals and the patient may remain well for a number of years. . . . Subsequently, however, recurrence takes place. Following this there is a rapid downhill course with widespread distant metastases [secondary cancers in other parts of the body...
Concluded Johns Hopkins' Dr. Affleck: "An important fact to note is that once a mole shows sufficient symptoms to cause a patient to consult a physician, it is already in an advanced stage and treatment, regardless of the type, rarely results in cure. The only hope for the present seems to lie in the removal of pigmented [moles] in their quiescent stage...
...which Dr. Gushing successively served from the early spring of 1915 until after the Armistice. They include diaries of his experiences with the Harvard Unit of the American Ambulance at Neuilly, France; with the Base Hospital Unit which he organized in Boston and carried to France; and as "senior consult ant in neurosurgery" for the American Expeditionary Forces. They tell of his interest in gunshot wounds of the head (''g.s.w. skull"), a military accident with which he as a brain surgeon was particularly concerned. Eight brain opera tions a day was his goal...
...fines. Out the court building's back door soon slipped the two Congressmen. To newshawks Representative Zioncheck announced that he was going back to his apartment to look after his four pet terrapins. Representative O'Connor suggested that he might do better to consult a psychiatrist...
Herewith Dr. Newcomer's solution of a frequent patient-doctor quandary: "If you consult a doctor who, you believe, does not understand you or your case, you should feel perfectly at liberty to change physicians. The polite, kind way to make this switch is to notify the doctor, either verbally, or by letter, that you have decided to dispense with his service. A doctor appreciates this frankness. However, he is so accustomed to handling human nature that if you say nothing at all to him and simply go to another physician, he will feel you have acted well within...