Word: internists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were simply fooling around and having a great time. Chapnick said the simplicity and the wholesomeness of skating is appealing--it is truly American, good exercise and a lot more fun than jogging. Her customers range from children to professionals, she said. One of Chapnick's customers, a young internist from Philadelphia, asked her where he could disco rollerskate in Boston, she said. To her surprise, he proved his skill by skating gracefully, backwards, up the hill behind her store...
Originally devised 19 years ago for his patients, the diet is the brainchild of Dr. Herman Tarnower, 69, a Scarsdale, N.Y., cardiologist and internist. Mimeographed copies of his diet gradually made the rounds of local country clubs, were lent by enthusiasts to friends in other parts of the country and were eventually taped on refrigerators from New York to California. Not surprisingly, the good doctor was prevailed upon to write a book, padding his original diet with 244 pages of familiar advice and additional menus. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet (Rawson, Wade; $7.95), whose cover boasts, LOSE...
...article in the New England Journal of Medicine, it received a spate of critical letters. Gastroenterologist William Haubrich of La Jolla, Calif., protested that proffering a bill to a fellow doctor smacks of commercialism and erodes the strong feelings of fraternalism in the medical community. Oklahoma City Internist Ernest Warner Jr. added: "One of the greatest honors one can receive is to be asked by a fellow physician to care for his or her family...
...many years doctors suspected that the higher levels of estrogens-the female sex hormones -in women somehow protected them against heart attacks. Reason: it is only after menopause, when estrogen production drops, that the incidence of heart attacks begins to rise among women. Now a Columbia University internist has found evidence that undermines this theory...
...Lauring Conant, an internist at UHS, e0xplains that denial of the problems keeps patients from seeing a doctor. He has seen only two "full-blown" cases of anorexia in the past two years. "One of the terrifying things with this disease," Conant says, "is that they're on a dangerous crevice of 65 pounds and engage in vocational and avocational activities and get in trouble. Even though they may look like prisoners or war victims, they still engage in sports and you wonder how they can do it. Characteristically they are high achievers, intelligent students. Even in starvation, their cerebral...