Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elizabeth Hotel, then moved on to the nearby Windsor Hotel and nearly wrecked Mayor Jean Drapeau's newly opened restaurant. Expensive shops along St. Catherine's Street were hit by looters. On the city's outskirts, burglars went to work; one was shot dead by a doctor in his suburban home...
...What I think about when I can't sleep is the war I can't see or feel. People die and I live oblivious. What do I do? Go to a shrink or go to a doctor and ask him to find out what's wrong with me as I tell him where to look and make up things that I don't feel. Do I tell him with honesty that I just don't want to go into the Army to fight this war? Then am I chicken and will they scoff at me? Will I be affected...
...year-old woman in Huntsville, Ala., swallowed a large number of aspirins, plus some sleeping pills and tranquilizers. Her local doctor, knowing that she needed help fast, but unsure of the proper antidote, made one telephone call. A brief consultation with an expert on drugs gave the puzzled physician the simple answer. A quick stomach pumping brought the woman out of danger. Three months ago she might have died...
...reason she did not was MIST, Medical Information Service via Telephone, a new consultation service created last July by the Medical College of Alabama in Birmingham. Until the advent of MIST, all the woman's doctor could have done was to seek help at random. Instead, he was able to telephone a central switchboard; the operator immediately put him through to MIST's pharmacologist, whose specialized knowledge may have saved the patient's life...
...week while they are on the duty roster, these physicians provide a unique program. It is the only hospital consulting service in the U.S. that is available to nonaffiliated physicians without cost. "It brings medical service right into the physician's office," says Sheehy. "Nowhere else can a doctor call a medical center free of charge and receive personal answers to his questions from some of the most highly qualified specialists in the nation...