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Among those who criticize the financial inefficiency of spectacular surgical experiments, the most common prescription is a greater emphasis on preventive medicine???immunization, examination, nutrition?and not just medicine but a healthier way of living. "Control smoking, alcohol, handguns, overeating and seat belts," says Speer, "and that would be a new world." Sensible though such suggestions are, they are highly colored by wishful thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Miracle, Many Doubts | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...many of us so-called radical or progressive members of the medical profession are foolhardy enough to brave the wrath of the Old Guard of medicine???maybe it is a martyr complex or something?and speak right out in meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1935 | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

...theatrics. He devoted his attention simply to taking the enormously dramatic life of his subject, proportioning it justly, and letting it go its own exciting way in the theatre. The play is divided into five episodes. The two most conspicuous are that wherein Pasteur addresses the reactionary Academy of Medicine???heckling members of which are planted here and there amongst the audience?and that in which he effects the first cure for hydrophobia on a young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Nights | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

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