Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manner is mellow, without rough spots. In A Month in the Country he exhibits egotism in a slightly golden light, frivolity with a kind of silvery tinkle. He is neither too soft, too hard, nor too overbred: he will throw in a joyfully bad-mannered, sharp-tongued doctor, played with slapping gusto by Luther Adler, and in fine contrast to the superbly projected Natalia of Uta Hagen...
...month; the islanders gave him an unheated stone house furnished only with a single candle and a portrait of Louis Pasteur and, beyond that, little but sullen acceptance. "In the beginning," says L'Haridon, "it was like camping. I like camping, but how could I work as a doctor?" As the weeks wore on, the young doctor was appalled by his task. The islanders refused to pay bills or take orders. Some 300 Senans were seriously ill with bronchitis, rheumatism and TB; many of the children had whooping cough. What lie de Sein needed, L'Haridon pleaded...
...made his rounds last week, Physician l'Haridon decided that the case of lie de Sein was more than a 20th century doctor could cure. Said he: "I won't leave until another doctor arrives. But I can't stay here." To the Senans, unhealthy but untaxed. the impending departure of their sixth doctor in six months was no crisis. "So he goes," shrugged one islander. "Another one will come along...
Newspapers are often no more guilty of inaccurate reporting, said Dr. Hodges, than doctors are of making the wrong diagnosis. When a reporter does make a mistake in a medical story, the real cause may be a doctor's refusal to cooperate. Medical men often treat the press "as despised menials, or the morbidly curious," give the brushoff to the reporter who is "merely attempting to quote you accurately...
...these ills, said Dr. Hodges, "there is a pretty reliable cure. First, call the press in. Tell them your story. Let them speak to a living doctor and let them quote him as a flesh-and-blood human being, not an anonymous spokesman for the local medical society. Give them a chance to ask questions, and answer them intelligently. Don't consider that medical matters are necessarily secret matters. Take time to spell words out when you must use words unknown to the public. Medical practice is for the public and, in effect, belongs to the public...