Word: mayo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...request an abortion. Attorney Margie Pitts Hames, who argued the case for Mary Doe, points out that this can be a critical factor in poor rural areas with only one doctor. That specific question was not before him, but Justice Blackmun, a former (1950-59) resident counsel at the Mayo Clinic, obviously has faith in the physician's traditional discretion. "Despite the presence of rascals in the medical profession, as in all others," he said, "we trust that most physicians are 'good...
...that overweight is the result of the body's inability to metabolize carbohydrates properly. He allows his patients such dietary don'ts as mayonnaise, heavy cream, butter, steaks and lobster, but limits them to a maximum of 40 grams of carbohydrates daily. Dr. Charles Roland of the Mayo Clinic says that "despite Atkins' sweeping generalizations and exuberant confidence, his thesis rests largely on unproven assumptions...
Most of the country's major airlines subject their pilots to examinations with more rigorous standards than the FAA'S. American Airlines' testing includes brain-wave monitoring and screening for "prediabetic" and heart problems. Pan American, Trans-World Airlines and United are similarly strict. The Mayo Clinic includes extensive psychological testing in its preemployment examinations of Northwest Airlines pilots. The pilots' contracts with the companies expressly prohibit any information gained through the airlines' medical tests from being passed...
...were extremely careful all along to disguise the facts. When Eagleton was first hospitalized for shock treatments in 1960, his father gave out the story that Tom was suffering from gastric disorders and a virus. Eagleton's office gave the same reason for the 1964 visit to the Mayo Clinic. In 1966, when he returned to Mayo for shock treatments, his law office issued a statement that he was at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for gastric tests. Eagleton admitted last week that the story was "a ploy, because when you need rest you need rest from the press...
Fast. In medical circles, both St. Louis' Barnes Hospital and Minnesota's Mayo Clinic have a reputation for liberal use of shock therapy; thus the fact that Eagleton was treated by shock at those institutions does not necessarily indicate that his depression was severe. Shock is often preferred by politicians and others in the public eye because it is faster than psychiatric counseling (also cheaper: about $55 a treatment). The American Psychiatric Association claims that electroconvulsive therapy is effective in at least 90% of the depression cases in which it is carefully used, "sometimes in a matter...