Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Medical Association gathered in Dallas last week, selected as "Family Doctor of the Year" Dr. Chesley M. Martin, 70, native of South Carolina, who has practiced in Elgin, Okla. (pop. 450 by his best estimate) since 1915, has delivered about 2,500 babies in 1,200 sq. mi. of ranch country. At first he made house calls on horseback, graduated to what he calls a "T-model" within a year. Dr. Martin rarely charges more than $2 for an office visit, dispenses his own drugs, described his plans for retirement in a word: none...
...when Author Telfer deserts the patients for their keepers, the fervent social reformer becomes a kind of madhouse Grace Metalious. Two nurse trainees, Kathy Hunter and Althea Home, develop identical crushes on Donovan Macleod, the strong, silent head doctor. Macleod is impervious, but his colleague, Dr. Larry Denning, is so "vigorously amorous" that he rips off Althea's dress one night and treats her to what he regards as therapeutic rape. Pretty soon both nurses are sleeping in beds they never made...
...gets progressively unzippered emotionally, The Caretakers also goes melodramatically berserk. One patient chokes to death in neglect, one attendant is strangled by an inmate, and a lecherous doctor who impregnates a nymphomaniac patient has his skull crushed by the woman's husband. Such aphrodisiac antics strongly suggest that Author Telfer's characters-the sick as well as the supposedly healthy-need a 72-hour cool-off in Hydro. But as a document of conditions in many state hospitals for the insane, now undergoing some exciting reforms (TIME, Nov. 16), the book will shock as well as arouse compassion...
...Among them: a walker who drank 16 pt. of milk en route; a 14-year-old schoolboy; two bowler-hatted, brief-cased, brolly-toting civil servants from Bath. By week's end an R.A.F. technician had got the time down to less than 28 hr. A Russian-born doctor, Barbara Moore, 56, also claimed to have made the trip in under 28 hr., shod in gunny sacks, eating watercress and honey, and carrying her pet tortoise, Fangio by name, who slept on a hot-water bottle. Since no one paced her, her time was not recognized. Undaunted, Vegetarian Moore...
...lively 19th century dispute with Hegel, Russell triumphs over the ponderous metaphysics of German idealism. In this victory can be heard the thud of Dr. Johnson's boot against the stone in the good doctor's celebrated refutation of Bishop Berkeley's notion that matter is something in one's mind...