Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insurance pools have attained their crest and are now receding-today the percentage of health costs covered by insurance drops steadily. With the "traditional American approach" it is inevitable that children and adults will continue to develop chronic, incurable diseases, for many families with substandard incomes can afford neither doctor's bills nor the $150 premiums for adequate health insurance. It is time that America seek a new "tradition" in which every citizen has as much right to medical attention as he has to a free education...
...enough dentists and ophthalmologists to supply them. Crowds of already legendary size collected in the offices of overworked physicians, and as they sat and fumed, they cursed the new health program. Compulsory health insurance would present similar problems in the United States, unless increased numbers of nurses, dentists, and doctors could meet the new demand. Even under the current voluntary health insurance program, the nation will be short 15,000 doctors by 1960; yet the Eisenhower health program-because of AMA insistence-will train only nurses, supplying none of the $50,000,000 needed each year to counteract the doctor...
...Friends. The day began with a good omen. Handsome Dave McDonald, president of the United Steel Workers, one of the three C.I.O. negotiators, could hear through the left ear for the first time in seven years ("miraculously" cured by a doctor in his hotel). The six unionists were affable but brisk and businesslike. For seven hours they negotiated with professional ease. Lunch was brought in (club sandwiches, cake and coffee...
...Most doctors know that visitors often do more to stir up hospital patients than to soothe them. But the doctors' own ward rounds can have the same effect, sometimes with fatal results, reported Finnish Doctor Klaus A. J. Jarvinen in the British Medical Journal...
Finally, Cimbe, another Haitian god, came to her in the dark of the night and told her to come back to Haiti immediately. Mrs. Garrett was more mystified than ever by all these phenomena, but she obeyed Cimbe and returned to her old haunts. The Unga, or Witch Doctor, introduced her to another god, Papabidigri, and everything was all right again...