Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remove his son's sole remaining cancerous eye. It was a decision he had agonized over for five weeks. "I've cried myself to sleep every night since I made the decision," he said, "but it's the only way to save his life. The doctors convinced me of that." After the operation, surgeons pronounced Johnny's chances of recovery from cancer "reasonably good." Two days later, Johnny's doctor explained to him what had happened: "The eye was sick, and I had to take it out to keep you alive. When I take this...
...every ten U.S. citizens is hard of hearing to some degree, doctors estimate. At least 4,000,000 have a disability severe enough to call for medical attention. But 3,000,000 of these do not seek it, prefer to go on cocking their heads, cupping their hands behind their ears and trying to lipread. Even those who go to a doctor are not assured of the best help; across the U.S. there are few speech-and-hearing centers where a patient can be rigorously examined for correctable causes of deafness (e.g., emotional factors or unsuspected infection). Many doctors with...
...real controversy is over Victoreen's determination to keep his hearing aid out of the hands of dealers. He has set up a special company to handle the Vicon, insists that he will sell it only on prescription, and will not advertise to the public. He wants doctors, not dealers, to distribute it (at $200 plus whatever fee the doctor chooses to add). So far, Colorado otologists have balked at the idea of acting as distributors because they do not want to be responsible for servicing instruments. "I can't take calls at 2 o'clock...
Prophet & Savior. Charlie Merrill did not start out to bring Main Street to Wall Street. The son of a Florida country doctor, he spent two years at Amherst College, quit to work for Eastman, Dillon & Co. Later he set up his own firm, then teamed up with Edmund C. Lynch. As an underwriter and investment banker, Merrill Lynch helped set up such big chain-store operations as S.S. Kresge, Grand Union and Safeway Stores. As brokers, Merrill Lynch & Co. also built up a sizable business during the roaring...
...furnace. Groaning from violent stomach cramps and unable to sleep, Dumas had no option but to go to work "with both hands, one hand writing as fast as it could, while the other was massaging his belly and coaxing from deep within him one lugubrious belch after another." His doctor put him on a diet (cold beef, olive oil, milk, cucumber salad, thrice daily, with hot chocolate between meals), but Dumas' eructations were so little lessened that he returned to his favorite, bouillabaisse. Dumas cooked this dish himself and liked to down six helpings of it at a sitting...