Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S April story concluded: "Last week the doctor chipped off a plaster cast that had held Grace Kim prisoner for nearly five months. Grace, he said, would limp for a long time to come, but eventually she would walk normally. As for her foster son, his back is still in a cast, but growing stronger every...
...cast. Now he is able to walk. Every day he walks to his mother's office, where she supervises the nurses' training school. He is able to kick a soccer ball almost as well as any normal boy. His ambition is to become a doctor. My wife still walks with a slight limp. As she and Ronnie go about the grounds of the hospital, people stand and watch in admiration...
Some family doctors do the operation in their own offices, other general practitioners send the patient to a urologist or general surgeon. With a local anesthetic, it takes about 20 minutes (and costs from $25 to $100). It does not change the man's sexual functioning in any way, except that the normally sperm-carrying fluid is free of sperm. Because the legal status of such operations is clouded in grave doubt, the doctor usually demands a statement, signed by both husband and wife, that they know what they are doing...
...bedside blood test that any family doctor can perform in a couple of minutes has been devised by George Washington University researchers for victims of certain kinds of heart and artery diseases. Hitherto, treatment with anticlotting drugs like Dicumarol and Tromexan meant that patients had to go to a hospital every day; the simplified test means that the drugs can be used more conveniently for more cases...
...died in the quiet of a Riviera late afternoon, in his hotel apartment overlooking Nice. His secretary, his nurse, his doctor and a daughter were with him. For 14 years he had remarkably survived the ravages of intestinal cancer, although doctors, in 1941, had given him only six months to live. But at 84, Matisse's heart finally stopped...