Word: gastroenterologists
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...ready to adjust to the new program. The delegates obviously thought that the fight should and will go on. and to prepare for the future they elected Dr. Milford Rouse by acclamation as the next A.M.A. president. Rouse, who will take office in June 1967, is a Dallas gastroenterologist and a former director of H. L. Hunt's ultra-right Life Line Foundation. As speaker of the house of delegates, he has already made it clear that he will take a far harder line on Medicare than moderate Dr. Hudson...
Died. Dr. Antonio Gasbarrini, 81, papal doctor since 1954, a gastroenterologist who attended the final illnesses of Pius XII in 1958 and his good friend John XXIII last spring; following a prostate operation; in Bologna...
...patients were assured by their physicians," said Gastroenterologist Weiss "that the upset and pruritus [itching] were only temporary and would subside. After a week of these distressing symptoms, they would be given some of the routine pectate preparations and more reassurance. By the end of the third week after having been starved, given anti- spasmodics and various internal and external medications to no avail, they sought the aid of the gastroenterologist...
...afternoon, when the barium had traveled to the lower intestine. But they found nothing more-certainly no sign of the malignancy they had feared. Then the question was what to do about the hernia. Operate soon to remove the hernia, advised the Pope's new doctors, Gastroenterologist Antonio Gasbarrini and Surgeon Raffaele Paolucci di Valmaggiore. No, said Chief Papal Physician Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi, the Pope is too old (nearing 79) and not strong enough, and he would be too upset by the inability to carry on his duties. That was also the view of Switzerland's unorthodox...
...last week was an unusual medical book, Nervousness, Indigestion and Pain (Hoeber; $5), an authoritative treatise which Dr. Walter C. Alvarez directs toward young physicians, but which will be as eagerly read by laymen as by doctors. Its 471 pages include some of the ideas the famed gastroenterologist summarized in his recent hints to busy doctors in the Journal of the A.M.A. (TIME, Aug. 16)-and many more. All are calculated to help doctors make accurate diagnoses and limit treatment to what will actually help. Emphasis is on ways of knowing when a patient has no organic disease...