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Doctors Disagree (by Rose Franken; produced by William Brown Meloney) is a piece of pill-coated sugar. Glibly combining heart interest with brain operations, Playwright Franken (Claudia, Outrageous Fortune) keeps an assortment of problems churning. Sore beset is Miss Franken's doctor heroine (Barbara O'Neill) whose neurologist beau (Philip Ober) doubts whether a woman can qualify as a good surgeon. No sooner is he proved wrong than he starts doubting whether a good surgeon can qualify as a woman. The poor girl, meanwhile, is in an awful pickle about disregarding professional ethics in order to save...
...curtain time, however, the child is out of danger, his estranged parents are reunited, and the doctors (heroine and neurologist) have agreed that love and a career are compatible...
...York Times last week phoned local psychiatrists for a diagnosis of Harry James's rabid fans. The experts agreed that love of rhythm and the desire to dance are "perfectly healthy." One neurologist, who would not let his name be used, explained: "All of life, all humanity, the cosmos itself, is built upon the beat principle. . . . Its appeal is closely connected with mob hysteria, for you see the same responses in Germany, in the Niirnberg meetings, for example, where the multitudes are swung together under control in a certain direction. One of the secrets of Hitler's power...
...sever the tensions which underlie a psychopathic personality. This drastic method of rescuing psychotic patients from complete insanity is not exactly a new invention. It has been developed in Lisbon by Dr. Egas Moniz since 1935. But now two men who have pioneered this treatment in the U.S.-Neurologist Walter Freeman and Neurosurgeon James W. Watts of George Washington University-have published a book, Psychosurgery (Charles C. Thomas; $6), based on their work. Some 300 people in the U.S. have had their psychoses surgically removed, Dr. Freeman revealed last week, and a score of U.S. surgeons are now using...
Before the war Dr. Denny-Brown attended Oxford University and served as Neurologist on several English hospital staffs. Although he is released for an indefinite period from military service he retains his Reserve commission. As part of its policy of pooling scientific resources, the Scientific Committee of the British Cabinet gave Dr. Denny-Brown permission to fly to the United States and occupy his post...