Word: maclyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese health system aims to bring at least minimal medical care to every citizen, largely through the wide use of paramedics known as "barefoot doctors" and a network of spartan but well-staffed clinics and hospitals across the country. "Everyone we saw looked healthy and well fed," said Dr. Maclyn McCarty, a Rockefeller vice president and professor of biomedicine. The Chinese were well informed about what their Western colleagues were doing. They religiously read such scientific publications as the British Nature and the U.S. Science. The visiting scientists were impressed by the work the Chinese have been doing in protein...