Word: medico
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Without Pay. Such a working vacation is hardly the relaxing change of scenery a doctor might order for a patient, but Dr. Grain and a small but dedicated number of U.S. physicians are choosing the prescription for themselves. Through a program coordinated by MEDICO, the CARE-affiliated international medical cooperation agency co-founded by the late Dr. Tom Dooley, the doctors volunteer to spend a month practicing their specialties in out-of-the-way places in Africa, Latin America and the Far East. They usually pay their own way and always work without pay. At local clinics and hospitals, they...
...operations on almost every affliction known to orthopedics. In Hong Kong, three prominent eye surgeons performed a series of delicate corneal transplants. When Algeria gained its independence last July, fewer than 200 doctors were left to care for 11 million people, many suffering from epidemic diseases and war injuries. MEDICO rushed in emergency teams of doctors and nurses; now eight one-month doctors are on duty in Algiers. The volunteer system, says Dr. Peter D. Coman-duras, co-founder and now chief of MEDICO, demonstrates that "a great deal can be done with very little money in bringing the latest...
...September 1961 Castro cops burst into a room in Havana's Seguro Medico (Medical Insurance) Building. They found three Americans-Daniel Carswell of Eastchester, N.Y., Eustace Danbrunt of Baltimore, and Edmund Taransky of New York City-surrounded by electronic listening devices. All three were agents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. And they were bugging the newly opened Havana headquarters of Hsinhua, a Communist Chinese "news" agency. The CIA men were arrested and sentenced to ten years in Castro's dungeons...
Proceeds will be used to meet the $2500 goal set last October by the Student Council. The six charities are the Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Fund, Recording for the Blind, United Negro College Fund, MEDICO, KA-JWA (Farmer's Vocational School of Inchon, Korea), and the Foster Parent Fund, which sponsors a Vietnamese orphan...
...official statement of the Royal Caroline Medico-Chirurgical Institute (which awards the prize), the Harvard researcher was praised for "experimental skill...of an extremely high order." Specifically, the statement cited von Bekesy's "discoveries concerning the physical mechanisms of stimulation within the cochlea," which is a part of the inner...