Word: doctorates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home-run-hitting John Mize might never have been a big leaguer but for Doc Hyland. The Cincinnati Reds passed him up 13 years ago when another doctor discovered an old pelvic injury (the result of riding mules bareback in his Georgia childhood). Doc Hyland operated and Big John did the rest...
...gold medal and certificate given to him, Dr. Pressly says, mark the approaching end of the old country doctor who worked alone. And a good thing, too, he thinks. For the past six years, Dr. Pressly has had two doctors working for him on salary. He has a hard time keeping them because they prefer the "easier life" of the big-city specialist. He has two nurses, a maid and bookkeeper. His brick-veneer, well-equipped clinic building, which started out with seven rooms...
...country doctors work together in a clinic, says Pressly, both doctors and patients are better off. The doctors can take time off for vacations or for refresher courses; the patients get more thorough care. A general practitioner, he thinks, can take care of 85% of the people who are sick; only about 15% need specialists. In his early days, 90% of his practice was home calls, 10% office. Now the percentage is nearly reversed. Says he: "People realize they get more for their money in a clinic or a doctor's office...
...Virginia licenses practicing psychologists, requires that they be of "good moral standing," hold a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in psychology, have five years' clinical experience. Connecticut "certifies," but does not license psychologists, requires a Ph.D. in psychology, two years' experience...
Father's Pain. His interest began with a pain in his father's foot. His father, a doctor, suffered from metatarsalgia (a pain between instep and toes). His medical colleagues did him no good, but an oldtime chiropodist helped him. Said Lewi's father: "Maurice, someday it may be your opportunity to let the doctors know the value of foot care." That was in 1876, when Maurice was a medical student...