Word: endocrinologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spare Organ? Today vigorous research at the Brigham is continually pushing back medical frontiers, in many cases along the lines sketched out by the great men of its early days. Endocrinologist George W. Thorn and colleagues are still exploring the adrenals, gradually outlining the role of a recently discovered and potent but little-understood hormone, aldosterone. Dr. Harken is working with famed Scientist Vannevar Bush on plastic valves which may actually replace the aortic valve in patients with some kinds of heart damage...
...success in achieving a new and less stressful way of life, says Selye, lies in self-knowledge-insight into the particular factors that provoke stress in one's own case, from job insecurity to feeling unloved. A man can be drunk with his own hormones, according to Endocrinologist Selye, who adds: "This sort of drunkenness has caused much more harm to society than the other kind* ... In all our actions throughout the day we must consciously look for signs of being keyed up too much-and we must learn to stop in time...
Some doctors suspect that about three out of every four U.S. women are frigid, i.e., get no sexual satisfaction. In the current Journal of the American Medical Association, Gynecologist William S. Kroger of Chicago and Endocrinologist S. Charles Freed of San Francisco chide U.S. gynecologists for not paying more attention to the problem...