Word: misting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason she did not was MIST, Medical Information Service via Telephone, a new consultation service created last July by the Medical College of Alabama in Birmingham. Until the advent of MIST, all the woman's doctor could have done was to seek help at random. Instead, he was able to telephone a central switchboard; the operator immediately put him through to MIST's pharmacologist, whose specialized knowledge may have saved the patient's life...
Closing the Gap. MIST's concept and operation are simple, but its effects are far-reaching. Begun as a pilot study that covered only four counties in Alabama, the project is now bringing the advice of medical specialists even to some of the most remote corners of the state. The idea was developed late last year by the Alabama Medical College dean, Dr. Clifton K. Meador, whose experience as a physician in Selma, Ala., had led him to believe that there were serious "defects in the communications between physicians and med ical centers." Meador decided to close that...
Unique Service. The MIST duty rosters are manned by experienced physicians on the faculty, including some with national reputations. They include Dr. John Kirklin, former chief of surgery at the Mayo Clinic and now chief of surgery at the medical college; Dr. T. Joseph Reeves, chief of medicine at the college and a renowned cardiologist; and Dr. Thomas W. Sheehy, formerly a medical adviser for the U.S. armed forces in Viet Nam, now director of MIST and professor of medicine at the college. They take on the extra duty without pay, have already dealt with scores of cases ranging from...
...call for MIST 24 hours a day, seven days a week while they are on the duty roster, these physicians provide a unique program. It is the only hospital consulting service in the U.S. that is available to nonaffiliated physicians without cost. "It brings medical service right into the physician's office," says Sheehy. "Nowhere else can a doctor call a medical center free of charge and receive personal answers to his questions from some of the most highly qualified specialists in the nation...
...Line Cafe." -during the summer of 1912, it is quite easy to imagine Miller's Willy Loman as well as Albee's George and Martha in quite the same milieu. Iceman -along with the two more familiar war-horses of the American theatre-is suffused with the mist of many pipe dreams. Harry Hope, who hasn't stepped outside of his establishment since the death of his wife twenty years past, dreams of taking a "walk around the ward" to reestablish his political contacts; Willy Loman dreams of being "liked, well liked," while George and Martha carry on about...