Word: doctors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a twenty-minute wait, a nurse calls each patient and takes his temperature. Asked about rumors of a 102 degree admission cut-off, one nurse replied, "Well, everyone does get to see the doctor...
...doctor calls for each patient about an hour after he signs in. He asks routine questions about nausea, runny noses, bowel movements. If the answers are convincing, the doctor puts on his relaxed, reassuring, professional manner, and tells each patient to go home, drink about ten glasses of water a day in sips, and take his temperature hourly. "If you're not better in five days," the doctor says, "come back again. Goodbye...
...American Doctor, from the dedicated G.P. of rural areas to the surgeon of the battlefield to the impersonal practitioner of computerized medicine. They keep on striving to build a better man-even as the same men tear each other down...
When she purchased her first supply of birth control pills last year, West German Housewife Ursula Knack, then 27, was a bit puzzled by the label on the bottle. Her doctor had prescribed "Eu-gynon," but the bottle was marked "En-zynorm" - an aid to digestion. Frau Knack simply concluded that the Pill must be sold under a disguised name be cause some people disapprove...
...women. The barrage of epithets helped convince some policemen that their opponents were scarcely human-and they all too often shed their own humanity. Witnesses frequently noted that if a demonstrator being chased by police got away, the cops would simply club whoever else was handy. A Chicago doctor drove up to one officer to report that protesters were dumping trash baskets into the street. The officer snapped: "Listen, you goddam - -, get this - car out of here." When the doctor tried to explain, the cop shouted: "Listen, you son of a bitch, didn't you hear me the first...