Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upper chambers twitch irregularly and contract too rapidly, is frightening to victims: in brief attacks it may cause a "heart in the mouth" feeling and palpitations; over longer periods it can lead to heart failure. It is also difficult to diagnose because early attacks often pass before a doctor can get there. A unique study of 113 men and women of five generations in one family-compiled by Dr. William L. Gould of Albany, N.Y. and reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine-shows that in an occasional case fibrillation neither causes disability nor shortens life. A tailor who immigrated...
...Last Bridge. Another by Director Kautner: the parable of a German doctor (Maria Schell) and how she learns that humanity is more important than her country (TIME, Sept...
...propriety of outright refusal, a Montana practitioner took one extreme position: "A doctor's justified in refusing at any time he doesn't want to serve the patient. We're no more obligated to give service than is the grocer." A Michigan M.D. replied: "Nothing about medicine is as impressive to the layman as our willingness to get up and go out at midnight. Doctors must maintain their reputation on this score...
Diamond Fever. Helena's father was the son of an English doctor named Dayrell who had settled in Brazil because he had a "weak chest." Her mother was one of ten daughters of a Brazilian who married off his girls without their leave by the simple process of interviewing the proposing swains. Helena records family stories of how the girls "used to peek through the keyhole and tell each other, 'I think that so-and-so's mine.' " Helena's mother was one of only two who married for love, and it was-as charmingly...
Best Foot. In Kansas City, Kans., Tommy Hess, 3, warned of pain by the doctor preparing to put a plaster cast on his broken foot, gingerly extended his leg, never whimpered during the 40-minute operation, only explained when the impressed doctor praised him, "It's the other foot that hurts...