Word: medicancy
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...heavy fighting around the Chang-Jin reservoir in northeast Korea, Bob had been slightly wounded by gunfire and had lain in a gutter for three days,' covered only by a raincoat. "There was a medic there,'' he said, "but every time I started to call him, I heard someone else call, and I figured they were worse off than me." When Chinese overran the area, Smith played dead, even when some of them stripped him of parts of his clothing. Finally he made his way to a nearby house, where he found other wounded G.I.s...
Retired with farewell salutes this week after 36 years of service: the Navy's most decorated (Medal of Honor, D.S.C., five . Silver Stars, three Purple Hearts, etc.) medic, Rear Admiral Joel Thompson Boone, 61, medical adviser to Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. Retired after 40 years: Lieut. General Clarence R. Huebner, 62, blunt commander of the 1st Division, former commanding general, U.S. Army in Europe, who started his Army career as a private. The Air Force granted a retirement request from Major General Orvil A. Anderson, 55, relieved as commandant of the Air War College, after an interview...
...meanest medic had not been caught in an abortion mill, had not brazenly advocated socialized medicine, or neglected a patient. Nothing of the sort. He had contrived to keep a broken-hipped Illinois Civil War veteran alive (he lived to his 106th birthday) by denying him his chief pleasure in life: attending G.A.R. exercises on Memorial...
...broad-based group to investigate the inner workings of the Hygiene Department and its standing in the intercollegiate picture. Membership could include representatives from the Student Council, Graduate Advisory Council, Law School Record, and Business School News as well as a spokesman for University Hall and a prominent Boston medic...
...getting over its prejudice against women doctors? The medical-school welcome to women looked like a favorable sign: besides admitting more of them, medical schools no longer gawk or sniff at their girl students. But after medic school, the going is still tough...