Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago, when Mary Ann developed a cold and fever, the Gibsons' family doctor advised the parents to take her to Los Angeles' Childrens Hospital. Through their stethoscopes, pediatricians at the hospital heard the peculiar swish that signifies heart murmur. They noted other symptoms: sallow face, slanted eyes, puffy abdomen, great toes widely separated from the other toes, a pronounced line down the soles of both feet, flabby muscles, and a protruding tongue. The dread diagnosis: Mongolism...
...Parmelee told the parents that Mary Ann will be able to learn to dress and feed herself and play with other children, but at best will attain only the mentality of a six-or seven-year-old. The father blurted out: "I'll take bets on that, doctor. That baby's going to be all right! And there's no Orientals in our family...
...help; 20% are confined to bed; more than half are mentally confused, and one-third cannot control bladder and bowels. More than a third are suffering from the aftereffects of heart attacks or strokes. Yet in half the states studied, one-sixth of the inmates had not seen a doctor in six months. ¶ Despite the label "proprietary," these homes are supported largely from public funds paid out of welfare coffers. In Connecticut a private patient pays an average of $230 a month, but public authorities will pay only $160. California ponies up $120 for welfare cases, against a private...
...Doctors (Kingsley-lnternational) is a French movie in which, as in most movies about doctors and most movies made in France, the part of the anatomy most affected is the heart. Based on Andre Soubiran's international bestseller, it tells of a brilliant but cynical Parisian medical student (Raymond Pellegrin) who acquires an understanding heart as a country doctor...
...picture, as in the novel, the dramatic scalpel does not cut very deep. But there are vivid clinical scenes in hospital ward and peasant hovel, touching sequences of the young doctor's struggles with Auvergne's backward farmers, who prefer faith healers to doctors...