Word: internists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make further treatment useless. There s no need, he suggested, to fear that the world's bacterial population will learn to defeat man's antibiotic weapons. The varieties of bacteria which have not yet shown resistance to antibiotics probably never will learn to do so, said Internist Dowling. These, fortunately, include most of the bacteria which cause acute infections: the pneumococcus, more than half the streptococci, meningococcus, gonococcus and the spirochete of syphilis...
...undertrained nurse-technician, who merely slapped a mask on a patient's face or jabbed a needle into his arm, has passed. Modern anesthesiology has been developed, mainly in the past 15 years, to a complex discipline. In the best medical centers, the anesthesiologist ranks with the internist and the surgeon, has equal responsibility for the patient's care and survival. Said a noted chest surgeon recently: "The anesthesiologist is the forgotten hero. The surgeon gets the glory, but without the anesthesiologist's skill the surgeon wouldn't get very...
...Sadove's view, the distinction between major and minor surgery disappears when anesthesia is employed, because anesthetics are such powerful and dangerous substances that their every use is a major medical event. That is why the anesthesiologist is called in on the case early, perhaps to help the internist and surgeon decide whether an operation is feasible. That is why, during the operation, the anesthesiologist is responsible for the patient's general welfare, beyond the immediate area where the surgeon is working-and if he says so, the surgeon must stop...
...Taft, who had suffered a stroke in 1950, should be spared the truth as long as possible. To enter Memorial Hospital would have been to advertise the nature of his illness. Instead, he put himself under the care of Dr. Claude E. Forkner, no cancer specialist but an internist. Using the name Howard Roberts Jr., Taft entered Manhattan's topnotch New York Hospital, right across the street from Memorial. Specialists from Memorial consulted with New York's staff. Taft received X-ray treatments which relieved the pain in his hip, and transfusions to combat anemia. To find...
...People are puzzled today as to how you get medical care," said another panel member. He thought internists should "interpret and lead." But few conventioneers seemed interested in citizenship problems. While the panel met, more than 1,000 physicians pushed into another meeting room to hear a highly technical discussion of a couple of autopsies-involving problems that the average internist seldom meets in a lifetime of normal practice...