Word: geriatrician
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...recognition of geriatrics' special place is not coming fast enough to satisfy Gerontologist Cowdry or swashbuckling, iconoclastic Geriatrician Edward J. Stieglitz, 57, of Washington, D.C. Complains Cowdry: "Medicine has shunned geriatrics. It has viewed the elderly patient as a bad pay risk. It has misdiagnosed and maltreated him." He estimates that fully 30% of mental-hospital inmates over 65 have diseases no more "mental" than partial paralysis, heart trouble, untidiness, nutritional problems, or high blood pressure...