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BREAKING POINT (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Bradford Dillman as an internist who is suddenly blinded but still determined to pursue his career...
...fundamental approach to prompt treatment for the mentally ill, and is now being acclaimed as the nation's second most advanced state in the promotion of mental health-after neighboring Kansas. Guided by Dr. Cecil W. Wittson, Nebraska's program aims at training the family doctor, pediatrician, internist and obstetrician-gynecologist to handle the everyday emotional problems of their patients. The Nebraska Psychiatric Institute invites family doctors to Omaha for training in consultation and observation of patients. They may even bring their own patients along for study. Back home, they are expected to set aside one half...
...permitted to deduct educational expenses if they enable him to keep his job, but not if they enable him to get a better job. A specialist in internal medicine, for example, was allowed to deduct the cost of psychoanalysis (he said it would help him be a better internist), but a psychiatrist was not allowed to do so since analysis might help him become a psychoanalyst-and thereby make more money...
...patients, on the other hand, go to their doctor sooner when there is no "barrier of cost." This makes possible the most rewarding practice of all: preventive medicine. To provide the personal touch, Kaiser subscribers are given a reasonably long list from which to select a general practitioner or internist to serve as their family physician. Some keep the same family doctor for years; on his referral, they get treatment from a specialist in the group. To help subscribers make appointments painlessly. Kaiser medical offices use highspeed desks with lazy-Susan centers for doctors' schedule books...
...streptococcal infection similar to the type that commonly causes rheumatic heart disease. In his case the infection touched off a form of Bright's disease known as glomerular nephritis (inflammation in and around the filtering capillaries). Around Christmas 1959, the disease threatened to kill him. University of Washington Internist Belding H. Scribner could have kept Ben A. alive for a few weeks by hooking him up to the artificial kidney at short intervals. But this would have needed frequent surgery and still offered no cure. So Dr. Scribner got together with Medical Engineer Wayne Qumton to figure...