Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wire had stuck in his legs. He had had a tetanus shot, he added, but by now the pain was terrible: he could barely walk, needed medical attention-but could not pay for it. He was, he said, Leo Lamphere, 47, of Watertown, N.Y. The sympathetic sergeant called a doctor who saw what looked like clots in the veins on both 'Lamphere's legs, ordered him to Culver Union Hospital. There Lamphere began spitting blood. He was put to bed, acted like a grateful model patient. That was a fortnight...
...hands allegedly suffered in California, Louisiana, Ontario, New Jersey and Kentucky. He had had lots of expensive hospital care all over California and in a dozen other . states. Repeatedly he had slashed himself, then ripped the bandages off the wound and torn it open again with his fingers. No doctor had been able to figure out how he managed to spit blood at will...
...same Doctor Batterman you quoted admits that his findings are at war with the research findings of three other prominent doctors, and your own writer realized that Doctor Batterman's report would come as "... a surprise to many physicians . . ." Do you really believe that physicians, dentists, nurses, and the public at large would prescribe or use a more costly medicine for almost ten years unless it fulfilled all their expectations...
...might have been injured at birth. Blood type and Rh status are recorded for father and mother as well as baby. There is a three-page blank for details of baby's first medical examination after leaving the hospital, to be filled in by the doctor and pasted in the book...
...soul-searching" report, none challenged his facts. To one farm-belt editor who accused him of exaggerating his conclusions, Carl Rowan replied: "Sure, the truth hurts, and if I have spiked some tender toes-well, I'm not sorry. I viewed my job much like that of a doctor diagnosing an ailing patient. It would be a silly doctor who spent two hours telling the patient how pretty his teeth are, how strongly his heart beats, how good his reflexes are, only to add a postscript as the patient walks out the door...