Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unable to prevail against Dr. Walter Bernard Coffey, pugnacious chief surgeon of Southern Pacific Railroad, who bosses the politicians who control the practice of medicine in California. Results: California Medical Association last year practically bolted from the American Medical Association. The A. M. A. refused to elect a California doctor as trustee. Eleven thousand California doctors have virtually no say concerning the practice of their profession...
During the past year these changes affecting the California carbuncle on the body of the A. M. A. have occurred: the A. M. A. has become more lenient toward California experiments in the relation of doctor to patient; California doctors were scared away from drastic changes in ethics by Upton Sinclair's EPIC. Dr. Coffey hopes that by "playing ball" with the A. M. A., that organization will fulfill his dearest wish and agree that he has cured many a case of cancer with hypodermic injections of extracts of adrenal cortex (TIME, Nov. 11 et ante...
Brown-eyed, bobbed-haired Dr. Marian Staats Newcomer, 47, of Manhattan, remembers the qualms she suffered when a Syracuse University nose & throat specialist wanted to remove her tonsils. Although at the time she was a medical student of that University, she scooted home to her family doctor. "I knew," said she last week, "this beloved physician was not in a position to tell me more about my throat than the man who had already spoken so authoritatively on the subject. But he did know a great deal about my general health and background and I wished to add his opinion...
...family and friends, and set out. But he had not gone much of a piece along his lengthy road before he discovered that America was farther than he had thought it. When he got to the city and took the medical examination required of prospective immigrants, the doctor informed him he had an eye disease, would have to wait several months. John was not as cast down as he might have been, for already he had met new friends it would be hard to part with: good-hearted Anghel and his lovely wife Zamfira. Anghel asked John to come...
...story, whose scene is Paris, is laid in the future. France, after a bitter civil war between Communists and Royalists, has become a kingdom, and the Bourbon lilies once again float over the Louvre. Walter Leroy, a young Manhattan doctor with liberal leanings, is on his way to Paris, ostensibly to pursue medical research, but actually to deliver money and a message from the U. S. Communist Party to their shattered comrades in France. On the boat with him travel M. de la Penthièvre, most potent minister of the new king; Mr. Penkethman, aged but acute sleuth connected...