Word: doctoring
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...limited to forty days and provides still further check. Finally, if after forty days the patient has not decided to stay voluntarily (and in my experience about nine out of ten patients do) the superintendent of the hospital may request a Section 51 commitment. This is all the doctor may do, as only a judge may commit somebody on a Section 51 paper. Any patient may be represented by counsel and have a detailed hearing, which is by no means always the rubber stamp which the article implies. The reason most patients are committed under this procedure is that...
Fearing that my fellow travelers were being indoctrinated, they gave me a bathrobe which I was encouraged to wear throughout the ceremony. Things built up to the climax slowly but surely. By the last station I was being examined alone. The doctor called me in. He marvelled at my history of infirmity and disease. He grimaced a bit at my answer to the question on my state of health. I had admitted there that "I have had very poor health since the war in Vietnam started. I am often extremely depressed and feel powerless...
...nation wide absence of an organized approach to the problem. Each of the 6,000 general hospitals in the U.S. should be at least morally bound to accept and treat any emergency case, regardless of the patient's age, ability to pay or the medical affiliation of his doctor. Hundreds of hospitals, well equipped, properly staffed and organized for the task, fulfill the responsibility. Others fail...
Medical regulations can also stand in the way of proper emergency treatment. When former Speaker of the House Joe Martin fell into a coma in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., last month, his doctor ordered an ambulance service to take him to a distant hospital, by passing one eight blocks away because the doctor was not affiliated there. Reported dead by the ambulance driver when he arrived, Martin, 83, was then taken to a third hospital, 15 miles away, for an autopsy. There he was officially pronounced dead on arrival. His life might have been saved had he been taken...
WNBC's Dr. Frank Field, the Manhattan fellow whom Johnny Carson accuses of using a Hansel and Gretel clock to make his predictions, is actually a doctor of optometry. And appropriately so, for where others see a high-pressure area, Field sees "cold air coming off the Great Lakes like a locomotive without brakes...