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...gives an added margin of safety, the surgeons report after using it in 50 operations (in which they drew off an average of 3½ pints of blood). But, they warn, so drastic a procedure is not to be lightly used-and never used for an operation on a limb or in the abdomen, where bleeding is easily controlled. In fact, they say, it should only be used in "cases in which the surgeon encounters bleeding which would endanger life or function...
...station WTMJ-TV, said: "Godfrey's remarks . . . were the most obnoxious and filthy ever inflicted on a television audience . . . Unless [his] remarks and gestures conform to decency in the future, the Journal Co. will refuse to carry him further." Variety headlined, CBS OUT ON A GODFREY LIMB, and warned that industry-wide censorship might result. Urging Godfrey to "pipe down a little," New York Herald Tribune Columnist John Crosby wrote: "I hate to align myself with the forces of prudery, but I can't quite see myself coming out four-square for scatology...
Because malpractice suits are costly to defend, even when the doctor wins, Dr. Regan and the County Medical Association are concentrating on trying to prevent them. For example, a doctor must not tell a patient that a broken limb will be "as good as new," for that can be regarded as a verbal contract. He must not promise a cure...
...Here I am an old man, and still working." In its 82 years, the Metropolitan has had only six presidents. It began as the National Union Life and Limb Insurance Co., formed to insure the lives of soldiers & sailors fighting in the Civil War, was still getting organized when the Union Army lost 17,287 men at the battle of Chancellorsville. Result: the company collapsed. It reorganized the following year, changed its name to Metropolitan in 1868. It got another bad jolt in the 1918 flu epidemic, when at the peak of the disaster, more than 5,000 claims...