Word: gynecologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the cops arrived, Dr. Brandenburg was dressed in surgeon's gown and mask. A gynecologist who went along on the raid in case of a medical emergency said that the women patients (unlike most who go to abortionists) were getting almost every drug and precaution that they would get in a hospital...
...ones). The doctor insisted on only one thing: they must all take a turn in postgraduate training in general practice. He wanted no "cockeyed specialists" in his family. The boys obeyed-but came out specialists anyway. Herbert (the eldest) and Paul became surgeons, William a pediatrician, Philip an obstetrician-gynecologist, Carl (the youngest) an eye, ear, nose and throat...
Homer Collyer and his brother Langley grew up just before the gas chandelier, the camisole and the Prince Albert coat vanished from the American scene. Their father was a well-known and wealthy Manhattan gynecologist, their mother an educated woman who read the classics aloud to them in Greek. They were fondly reared; they were trained to be gentlemen & scholars. Homer became an admiralty lawyer. Langley went in for engineering and developed a talent for the piano...
This not uncommon appeal across a drugstore counter spawns one of the world's meanest, lowest rackets. As every druggist knows, the customer who makes this plea is interested in abortion and usually wants a box of pills (often hideously expensive). As every gynecologist knows, pills don't work-and are highly dangerous. Last week the U.S. Food & Drug Administration let it be known that it had launched a determined drive against the thriving abortion-drug trade...
Ringleader of this aggressive revival of an old argument: Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson, sprightly, 85-year-old president of the society, gynecologist, artist, marriage counselor. He had drawn a bill for "dignified, merciful" killing. Under it, any patient over 21 who found life unbearable could apply to a court for permission to die; if an investigating committee of doctors and laymen approved, his doctor would get authorization to end his life painlessly (e.g., by a narcotic). The bill would do nothing about imbeciles or children born monstrously deformed...