Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Mae Reuther ran for towels, knelt, tried to stop the flow of her husband's blood. People burst into the kitchen. A neighborhood doctor arrived. Reuther said wildly: "Those dirty rats had to shoot a fellow in the back." An ambulance crew pushed in, carried him off to Grace Hospital...
...Young Doctor Parris Mitchell (the hero of Kings Row), a home-town boy but a Vienna-trained psychiatrist, has become a paragon of goodness. As a disciple of Freud, he naturally has a hard time convincing his fellow citizens that he is more than a doubletalking quack. In time he not only shames his narrow-minded enemies but gives them, free, some sobering doses of analysis as well. At times coming very close to being a boring do-gooder, he rids a local rich man of his compulsion to bay like a hound, comforts the intimidated German townspeople when World...
...poor Dr. Mitchell, successful psychiatrist that he is, is stumped by his own marital troubles. Neither he nor his wife fill the bill for each other, something everyone but the doctor seems to realize. When he finally becomes aware that he covets another woman, the wife conveniently dies and in the glow of his new love the hero recovers his emotional and spiritual balance...
...just seemed that after I had visited someone and talked to them for a while, they felt better," he says. Doctors began noticing the strangely beneficial effects of Mowatt's bedside visits, and urged him to call on their patients regularly. Today Healer Mowatt refuses to see patients without a doctor's recommendation...
...inferiority complex. Says he: "I never feel I have to apologize to any specialist. A man may know brain surgery, but I know more about feeding babies." Back home, Dr. Sanders, a greying 54, hustled to get his state's organization started fast. He knew the family doctor's problems. For 21 years he had been a general practitioner in Caspiana (pop. 265) and in Shreveport, where he runs the Sanders Clinic. Within 40 days he had organized Louisiana's A.A.G.P., with himself as president. Last week, Louisiana's chapter of the A.A.G.P. was the first...