Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Factually, I was ordered to drink by my doctor after my heart attack...
Sally's case is extreme, but her need for friendly persuasion by an understanding doctor is shared by almost every adolescent. Usually, just when he becomes most conscious of mysterious aches and pains, the teen-ager finds himself medically a displaced person. His parents often brush off his vague complaints as "growing pains." Many doctors view adolescents, who have the lowest mortality rate from illness of any group, as uninteresting cases. When adolescents fall ill because danger signals have been ignored, says Ephebiatrician Roth, "they feel too old for the pediatrician and too young for the internist...
...Right Place. Dr. Roth entered his new field years ago when he tangled with a 15-year-old boy who refused all medical aid after getting a chicken bone caught in his throat. Just the mention of a doctor scared Denny out of his wits. After finally wooing Denny into the hospital and extracting the bone, Pediatrician Roth decided to focus on adolescents. He got help from his old training school, Children's Hospital in Boston, where Dr. James Roswell Gallagher set up the country's first teen-age clinic in 1952, now has four hospital floors serving...
...patients "what every teen-ager wants from everybody-respect and honesty." The waiting room, filled with teenagers' fashion and hobby magazines, is designed to make patients feel they are "in the right place." Visits by parents are discouraged; the patient is on his own, alone with his own doctor...
...constantly fears that his or her body is not following the lines of the "ideal" movie star. A girl worries about small breasts; a boy fears that his are overdeveloped. Most frequent complaints: acne, obesity, menstrual "disorders," lack of beard, the skin striations common to fast growth. Not every doctor cares to worry about such normal minutiae. Dr. Roth disagrees...