Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...columns telling the anxious mothers of bed-wetters that the children are resenting their "free-flowing" permissiveness. The "psychosomatic" cold and eating to "compensate" have become part of folklore. Pop-psych even appears on the sports page, as when a feature writer for New York's new World Journal Tribune gets a psychiatrist to describe baseball as a ritual performed in a crib (the diamond) and dominated by an elevated father figure (the pitcher on his mound...
...daring operations devised by modern surgeons, few have seemed more exciting than "replantation"-the reattachment of a completely severed arm or leg to the body. But, worries the current Journal of the American Medical Association, such operations have become all too popular: too many doctors try them without recognizing the disadvantages for some patients...
Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital started the trend in 1962 when they successfully reattached the severed right arm of Little League Pitcher Everett Knowles Jr. "There was something for everyone in the tale of the red-haired teen-ager," says a Journal editorial. "The public could indulge their curiosity about medical 'miracles.' " Unfortunately, the Journal continues, doctors also reacted with too much enthusiasm. Over-zealous surgeons "tried to reunite every limb, or part of it, regardless of the patient's condition or the merits of the occasion...
...ideal patient for replantation, concludes the Journal, is someone under 30 who has suffered no other major injury at the same time, whose severed limb is in good shape, and who is in a hospital where medical facilities are equal to the intricate job. In all other cases, doctors will be serving their patients best by prescribing artificial limbs...
...fouled up phone calls. Files were locked and the keys were missing. Page proofs were misplaced and lost for hours. Copy boys, new to the neighborhood, wasted precious time on the coffee run. Then, when the presses were finally ready to roll with the first issue of the World Journal Tribune last week, pressmen balked at the, plan to have Mayor Lindsay press the starting button. After all, he is not a union...