Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doctor or the Grocer...
...Montana doctor who stated, "We're no more obligated to give service than is the grocer" [Dec. 30] should study the implications of his Hippocratic oath. The A.M.A. has the highest ethics of any profession. Such departure from these ethics and disregard of oath is good reason for-heaven forbid-socialized medicine...
...slight stroke, he took a young girl cousin on his final, fatal trip. The cousin's appalling story of his death has caused the mother to have the girl put in a mental institution; now she is using her money as a club on relatives and doctor alike. Instead, the skeptical doctor (Robert Lansing) gives the girl an injection of a truth drug, and out of her pours a story ending with the poet's hideous, obscenely cannibalistic fate...
When the patient is unconscious or anesthetized and a doctor wants to give a quick-acting injection in a hurry, he often has trouble (especially in the very young and very fat) in finding a vein. The answer, said British Anesthetist John Bullough in last week's Lancet, is to make the injection into the tongue. A few drugs cannot be administered in this way because they cause irritation, but most give no trouble and are absorbed in about a minute...
...said. Taint it for nothing.' And I said, 'Oh, no, not for nothing.' I was talking to myself, and it kept coming back. It stayed on my mind every day until mid-December. I was getting an ulcer. I went to a doctor...