Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wood snapping," said Dick Tuck of the Kennedy staff). The sounds of revelry churned into bewilderment, then horror and panic. A priest appeared, thrust a rosary into Kennedy's hands, which closed on it. Someone cried: "He doesn't need a priest, for God's sake, he needs a doctor!" The cleric was shoved aside. A hatless young policeman rushed in carrying a shotgun. "We don't need guns! We need a doctor...
...Want Him Alive." The word that Kennedy was wounded had spread back to the ballroom. Amid the screams and the weeping, Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith's controlled voice came through the loudspeaker system, asking that the room be cleared and appealing for a doctor. Within a few minutes, physicians were found and elbowed their way to Kennedy. More policemen arrived; none had been in the hotel, but a police car had been outside on other business. Rafer Johnson and Rosy Grier turned over their prisoner and the gun. The cops hustled the man out, carrying him part...
When the 3-hr. 40-min. operation was over, Kennedy "stabilized pretty well," said Cuneo. An electroencephalograph showed regular brain waves. Feeding him intravenously, continuing the transfusions and the monitoring of his life forces, the doctor watched for signs of consciousness. Even then, said Cuneo, "we were certain that the future would be disastrous for the Senator if he did survive. I didn't tell Ethel all this; I just told her that we were doing everything we could...
Should a small-town doctor be held to the same medical standards in a malpractice suit as his counterpart in the big city? Traditionally, the answer has been no, but with the new ease of communication, the so-called "locality" rule is changing. Massachusetts is the latest state to abandon the old standard. The ruling came in the case of a smalltown anesthesiologist accused of having given an excessive dose of a painkiller to a pregnant woman, thereby causing partial paralysis of her left leg. While noting that the lack of medical resources in a small town could be taken...
...resist the draft because it is not worth it. "It will ruin the rest of their lives," he said. "This will pass. Harvard students have always been able to cope with outside pressures well. They can find ways out." (And they have too. They see their friendly local doctor or shrink...