Word: drs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obstetrician's wife who has had two out of four children "naturally," I cannot let the remarks of Drs. Mandy et al. [TIME, Jan. 19] go unchallenged. The key to their squawk about natural childbirth lies in the assertion that "tried and true methods are suffering unfairly by comparison . . ." Childbirth under anesthesia demands, I admit, less time and effort from the doctor than the natural delivery, at which he must be like a coach to an athlete in the field. When these doctors develop a more mature relationship with their patients, they will see for themselves the rewards, medical...
...Drs. Arthur J. Mandy, Theodore E. Mandy, Robert Farkas and Ernest Scher...
...east side, in the Berkeley campus' Donner Laboratory, Dr. John Gofman leans to the theory that giant cholesterol molecules are to blame (TIME, June 5, 1950). Now, from the University's School of Medicine on the west side, comes strong evidence to the contrary. Cholesterol, according to Drs. Henry D. Moon and James F. Rinehart, does not cause hardening of the arteries, and is not even much of a factor until the disease is well advanced...
...Comes First. In trying to find the cause of hardening of the arteries, which is a major factor in 350,000 U.S. deaths each year, doctors have been paying a lot of attention to fats like cholesterol. To Drs. Moon and Rinehart, this looks like the wrong path. Their theory is that fat metabolism becomes important only in the later stages of the disease, and that the original trouble probably lies in how the body uses protein...
...year-old woman who went to Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital complaining of palpitations and a "smothering sensation" had nothing wrong with her heart. Drs. W. Proctor Harvey and Samuel A. Levine ordered psychiatric treatment for her. Then the patient volunteered to test the effect of a drug (amyl nitrite) on heart sounds. At first the electrocardiograph gave normal readings; so did the phonocardiograph. But as soon as the patient saw the drug, her heart began a machine-gun beat. Scared nearly to death themselves, the doctors put the drug away and her heart went back to normal...