Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obligatory--fee (more than most of us would pay normally for medical care in a year), we have, we think, a right to expect from the Health Service at least the care we would get from a private physician. To us, this includes the right to have a doctor come to our bedside when we are in pain. Radcliffe does not agree. "Except," (and here we quote a physician at Stillman Infirmary) "except in cases of impending death," Health Center physicians do not make house calls. This seems to us barbarous and miserly...
...weekends, there is no doctor at the Radcliffe Health Center. Cases are referred to Stillman. The one doctor on duty there is not permitted to leave. There is, it is true, a doctor on call, as well: but when we called recently that doctor was "thirty minutes out of town;" and in an emergency, he would evidently be useless...
...frustration, Duke undertook to prove to Infielder Don Zimmer that at least he could heave a ball out of the park. In a pregame contest, he threw a ball up to the 76th row of the 79-row stands before something snapped in his elbow. The team doctor prescribed rest and heat; Manager Walter Alston angrily ordered another kind of medicine. Every game Duke missed because of his horseplay, said Alston, would cost him a day's pay ($275). Next night the Duke was back in uniform, sore...
...movie-ending ride away from carefree childhood, sits the man who has waited for her to grow up-Playwright Wally (Marty Milner). Except for his freckles and the wide-rimmed spectacles he uses to help hide them, Wally looks, talks, thinks and acts just like the lawyer or the doctor: conventional, respectable and successful. Thus, Marjorie's parents (Claire Trevor, Everett Sloane) can rest assured that middle-class morality has triumphed...
...pasting paper bags together for a local factory. She keeps a kind of debit account with God, believing that she owes heaven a prayer of gratitude whenever life on earth is remotely bearable. The parents arrange things so that the boy sees his preacher once a week and his doctor perhaps twice a year...