Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...volume's most useful chapter was on "Choosing a Doctor." Dr. Newcomer's advice: Let a stranger sick in a big city apply to the Academy of Medicine or similar institution for the name of an able doctor who probably knows how to treat the illness and will not charge more than the patient can afford. Elsewhere sick strangers "must rely upon hospitals" or upon the county medical society...
Herewith Dr. Newcomer's solution of a frequent patient-doctor quandary: "If you consult a doctor who, you believe, does not understand you or your case, you should feel perfectly at liberty to change physicians. The polite, kind way to make this switch is to notify the doctor, either verbally, or by letter, that you have decided to dispense with his service. A doctor appreciates this frankness. However, he is so accustomed to handling human nature that if you say nothing at all to him and simply go to another physician, he will feel you have acted well within...
...Cornell Professors Leonard Amby Maynard, 49, Clive Maine McCay, 38, and Sydney Arthur Asdell, 38, will direct the research. All are learned, industrious biochemists. None is a doctor of medicine qualified to apply his findings to the physiology of human beings. The trio hope to validate "the theory that the characteristics of youth can be retained . . . by special diets." This they expect to prove by feeding mature rats a great variety of foods...
Into an operating room of Manhattan's gorgeous Doctors Hospital famed diagnostician Henry Harlow Brooks, rotund and haggard, was wheeled last Sunday. Long a professor in New York University Medical College, unusually skilful in the treatment of heart disease, Dr. Brooks, 65, had just returned to Manhattan from Miami. Feeling uncommonly weary he at first decided that he had caught the grippe in the South. But three other able diagnosticians and three able surgeons, all six professors in their specialties, decided that their doctor-patient suffered with an abscessed liver...
George, the village doctor, she was a goddess. Mary went to stay with George's family, but she visited Sparkenbroke on the sly. In time's nick Sparkenbroke packed up and left for Italy, and Mary married George. Everyone but the reader thought her temptations were over...