Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...G.P.s wanted it understood that a general practitioner does not necessarily mean a country doctor. The convention issue of General Practice News criticized the A.M.A.'s annual award for the outstanding general practitioner of the year. There have been two winners thus far, and both practiced in rural areas. Why not drop the award, the G.P. News suggested, or frankly give it to an outstanding "rural practitioner...
That Tired Feeling. Maya's famed Internist Dr. Walter Clement Alvarez gave the doctors some unconventional advice: "Often what you find in a patient has nothing to do with the case." In trying to explain why a patient has "that old tired feelin','' he said, the doctor might turn up some soft gallstones, a slightly low basal metabolism rate or a few intestinal parasites. But the doctor should remember that things like that cannot cause the great fatigue the patient complains about. The commonest cause of abnormal weariness, he said, is a "nervous breakdown," a term...
Help from a Frog. The doctors were deeply interested in a simple test for pregnancy, presented by the White Cross Hospital of Columbus, Ohio and Denison University of Granville, Ohio. It involved no new scientific principles, but was an improved application of old ones. Tests using rabbits are slow, may take two days; frogs or toads imported from South America or South Africa are expensive ($4 to $10 apiece). Urine from a pregnant woman injected into a common male leopard frog (Rana pipiens) causes emission of spermatozoa. The test has also proved valuable for finding out whether, in doubtful cases...
...short on personal items and society notes because its staff had been temporarily cut in half. Explained Editor William Buckley on Page One: "The Editor's wife, who goes around picking up loose ends after the Editor, is a good eight months pregnant and the doctor says she must take things easy from here on out. That means the number of loose ends she picks up is considerably diminished ... If there is something you want in the paper, or if you know of some little tidbit that's newsy, drop us a line or call into the office...
Anything but frothy and rarely funny, the film turns a gay dog of an artist (Louis Jourdan) loose in the happy home of a stuffy, successful pediatrician (Dana Andrews) and his wife-receptionist (Lilli Palmer). Stung by the doctor's smug criticism of his art, the tempestuous painter cuts him down to size by trying-almost successfully-to break up his marriage. In the process, the picture tries-and always fails-to palm off drivel as drollery. Sample: a long, witless sequence in which the artist weeps for some lobsters that are boiled alive for the doctor...