Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Somerville rushed screaming to the dining room for another lamp, but it blew out before she could reach the hall. In the dark she heard the pounding of running feet on the gravel again. The Admiral was still breathing when she reached him, but he died before a doctor could be summoned. By his body lay a card: RECRUITER FOR THE BRITISH. THIS IS A WARNING! By the door was a crumpled British recruiting poster and another card. It read...
Middle-aged U. S. doctors were generally opposed to Dr. Parran's appointment. They were educated, trained and licensed to earn their living from fees which their patients paid them. Now a large part of the population can no longer afford to pay any doctor bills whatsoever. To get around that economic difficulty doctors have invented several hundred prepay and partial-pay schemes, including $10-a-year hospitalization insurance (see p. 50). Dr. Parran does not believe such systems will solve the problem of patientless doctors and doctorless patients. He wants socialized medicine, with free drugs and hospital service...
...Golfer Rockefeller, a stickler for rules was slightly perturbed one day when his physician teed his ball a full foot in front of the markers. With painstaking care. Rockefeller teed his own ball exactly on a line with the red marker, dryly observed: "I always play the full course, Doctor." Equally hateful of waste, he once drove a brand new ball into the rough, hunted it for ten minutes, finally asked his caddy what his cronies would do in a similar situation. The caddy retorted that they would look for a minute, then drop a new ball. "Huh!" snorted Golfer...
Concludes Dr. Hooton: "One might define such an institute as an organization devoted to the purpose of finding out what man is like biologically when he does not need a doctor, in order further to ascertain what he should be like after the doctor has finished with him. I am entirely serious when I suggest that it is a very myopic medical science which works backward from the morgue, rather than forward from the cradle...
...Country Doctor" is definitely amusing and entertaining; the "Widow...