Word: internist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carefully to his doctor, angina pectoris (literally, strangling of the chest) means that because of exertion or excitement, his heart muscle is demanding more blood than its narrowed coronary arteries can supply. But it is not necessarily as simple as that, and angina can have some bizarre connotations, says Internist John Francis Briggs of St. Paul. The more doctors learn about the distressing symptom and its victims, the more complex angina becomes. To help get the next generation of practitioners started on the right track, Dr. Briggs lists 26 variations of angina in The New Physician, published for medical students...
...aging in all living things, and involving social as well as medical sciences, it has focused most sharply on the aging human since 1903, when Elie Metchnikoff suggested in The Nature of Man that "this science may be called gerontology" (from the Greek geron, an old man). In 1909 Internist Ignatz L. Nascher coined the word geriatrics (from geras, old age, and iatreia, cure) for the medical care of the old. Geriatrics has grown as a sub-specialty of internal medicine, but is not yet recognized as a fully distinct specialty-and many geriatricians think it never should...
...University of Rochester psychiatrist-internist team studied 42 average semiprivate patients at Strong Memorial Hospital. They were selected only on the basis of age (18 to 45) and because they happened to be in the hospital at the time. Included were housewives, businessmen, teachers, laborers, with ailments ranging from bronchitis to brain tumors. Purpose: to see if their illnesses were preceded by any loss in vital personal relationships, any emotions of "separation" (real, threatened or symbolic...
...vague complaints as "growing pains." Many doctors view adolescents, who have the lowest mortality rate from illness of any group, as uninteresting cases. When adolescents fall ill because danger signals have been ignored, says Ephebiatrician Roth, "they feel too old for the pediatrician and too young for the internist...
...scientific study, this revealed no discernible difference between those people who left and those who stayed. Dr. Blaine comments, "We found no difference in any category, except that of the report of the physicians' examination made at entrance. The examining internist had doubts about 18 of the 44 people who dropped out, and only about seven of the 44 who stayed...