Word: curely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very least, the new gonococci will require several visits to the doctor, as opposed to the old, cheap, one-shot treatment. Says Dr. Ronald St. John of the CDC's venereal disease division: "If this new strain becomes widespread, then a lot of money will be needed to cure...
...only would this cure the recession, but with his connections we would have avoided those disastrous droughts, earthquakes, devil's-grass and rainy weekends...
Aspirin or Ice Bag. With Swiftian hyperbole, Berman modestly proposes that "over 80% of the patients chancing the physician's skills have little more wrong with them than what a considerate spouse, a kindly bartender or a hefty raise in salary couldn't cure." For most of the rest, he would prescribe nothing more exotic than milk of magnesia, aspirin, an ice bag or Preparation...
...Nathan Kline, who is twitted along with other psychiatrists for pushing pills, perhaps provided the most perceptive analysis: while Berman's book is "outrageously provocative" and sometimes "pure Paul Bunyan," there is behind the barrage a serious intent-not to destroy U.S. medicine but to cure its flaws. In other words, Berman is repeating that most ancient admonition: physician, heal thyself...
...more pernicious than this falsehood is the patronizing attitude underlying the bill. The disadvantaged in rural America are entitled to have doctors to cure their flu and deliver their babies but, the bill implies, they should have their own people serve them and not distract the rest of us from our more socially significant specialization and research...