Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constant' or 'unremitting' is psychological." This is not to say that such pain is not "real." Most medical authorities now agree with Sternbach, who says: "Excluding the malingerer, who by definition is a deliberate faker, all pain is real." It does no good for a doctor to say "It's all in your mind." The important thing for the pain-relieving physician to do is to determine the source of the pain, whether in mind or body, or even in the amputee's "phantom limb," and then select the most effective treatment...
...hypnosis. First of the drugs to find favor was chlorpromazine (Thorazine), used to reduce the severe anxiety of patients with advanced cancer. Serendipitously, it was found that when their anxiety was lessened, so was their perception of pain -though not necessarily the underlying sensation. Many a patient said: "Doctor, I still feel the pain, but it doesn't bother me so much...
...University awarded one Doctor of Divinity degree, to Theodore P. Ferris '29, who has been rector of Trinity Church in Boston since...
...biologist and a judge also received degrees. Dr. Hugh E. Huxley, a member of the Scientific Staff of the Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, at Cambridge University, received a Doctor of Science. Wade H. McCree Jr., who is Judge of the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Detroit, received a Doctor of Laws...
...School gave in to a national trend and decided to award its graduates the Doctor of Laws (JD) degree instead of the old Bachelor of Laws (LLB). The change made no difference except in the names themselves, but the school said that so many other schools were giving JD's that students with mere LLB's might be victims of discrimination because they held supposedly inferior degrees. The school made the change retroactive, so all the old LLB's could send in their diplomas and become...