Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among native Libyans there is only one doctor and one engineer (the Prime Minister, who holds a degree from Alexandria University). Libya's only important export is dried esparto grass (used in making paper money); its per capita income is a wretched $35 a year. El Faki helpfully installed 500 Egyptian schoolteachers, sent out and paid by the Egyptian government, supplied Egyptians for every level of officialdom. Two members of the Supreme Court were Egyptians, so was the commander of the small army. Last week El Faki could boast that 1,800 Egyptians are working in Libya today...
...tries to get him to make the devil his source of guidance. My warning is-keep clear of black magic. And if anyone should himself be drawn into a circle that he suspects has black magic links and leanings to perversion, he should talk at once to his doctor or a friendly parson who will respect his confidences." ¶ The Wisconsin Restaurant Association, meeting in Milwaukee, uttered a low moan and a loud groan over competition from church suppers, adopted a resolution calling on the state board of health to subject food-serving churches to the same health regulations...
...hardy, denim-clad fishermen of He de Sein (pop. 1,328), six storm-swept miles off France's Brittany coast, regard both doctors and tax collectors as meddlesome nuisances. For three hard-lived centuries the Senans have paid no taxes; between last November and February they sent five doctors packing, each with his faith badly shaken in both humanity and the Hippocratic oath. Restless Paris Doctor Jean l'Haridon, 35, wartime resistance fighter and onetime Boy Scout, hoped to avoid the fate of his immediate predecessors; he saw He de Sein as a new world to conquer. When...
Other general practitioners are often less fortunate. Ninety percent of a young G.P.'s new patients in Philadelphia's white-collar Roxborough district are "floaters" with imagined ailments, who drift from one doctor to the next, demand "miracle" drugs and time-consuming examinations. Moreover, a city generalist competes with company and union-sponsored health centers as well as other G.P.s, and must augment his income from private practice by working for the city and a downtown insurance company...
Different as their problems are, most G.P.s would agree with Booster DeTar's, analysis of their task: "The family doctor is the captain of the medical team. He should make the diagnosis and care for the patient to the limit of his ability. He should bring in a specialist when needed. Then, with the help of the specialist, he should manage the overall care...