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...talk to them. In this musical movie, Dr. Dolittle's character, as well as his physiognomy, has gone astray. The pleasingly plump physician has been transformed into a lean, saturnine ectomorph (Rex Harrison) who treats his furred and feathered charges with all the intimacy of a Harley Street internist ordering a set of X rays. Surrounding him, however, is a brilliant supporting cast: pigs, dogs, giraffes, elephants, hippos, and a multilingual parrot...
Cervantes could have written a novel about a swordfisherman. He knew the type. Dr. John Staige Davis, for example. A Manhattan internist, Dr. Davis, 66, has spent a considerable part of the past 37 years pursuing Xiphias gladius, the broadbill swordfish, from Montauk, N.Y., to Cape Hatteras, N.C., and from California to Peru. The quest has cost the good doctor something like 3,000 man-hours and many more thousands of dollars. And for what? In those 37 years, Dr. Davis has been privileged to see 100 swordfish. He has hooked eight...
...Mencken defined a judge as a law student who grades his own papers," writes Manhattan Internist John Prutting in the New York State Journal of Medicine. "A similar view might be taken of the physician who fails to submit his diagnostic skills to that impartial grader, the autopsy." With that, Dr. Prutting put in a plea for more autopsies, which would enable more doctors to compare more diagnoses with actual causes of death...
Whether starch gobbling results from a physical need or a cultural habit is a minor medical mystery. According to Manhattan Internist Harry Roselle, who sees many cases at St. Luke's Hospital, Negro women nibble starch in times of stress as a form of "inexpensive psychiatry." Many Negroes believe that starch prevents nausea during pregnancy. Indeed, some doctors agree that starch probably does soothe "morning sickness," though probably only for psychological reasons. Unfortunately, the other effects...
What of the Ramparts report of a million child war victims that provoked the formation of the Committee of Responsibility in the first place? The three doctors-Internist Henry Mayer of Redwood City, Calif., Plastic Surgeon John Constable of Boston, and Pediatrician Theodore Tapper of Philadelphia -struggled to establish reliable casualty estimates. They visited 37 of the Viet Nam government's provincial hospitals in three weeks, but in the end could do no better than accept the Vietnamese Ministry of Health's report that casualties are now being admitted to its hospitals at the rate...