Word: obstetricians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty, is that scientists' first loyalty must be to their profession rather than to the university. The scientist-professor's audience is entirely professional. He competes for recognition with full-time government and industry researchers. He can have little more allegiance to Harvard and to teaching than an obstetrician who teaches a few hours a week at a medical school...
Some wore long Johns and sucked oranges for energy. Others, bundled in sweaters, jumped up and down to keep warm in the 38° chill. There were high school students and grandfathers; there was an obstetrician from Newton, Mass., and a psychiatrist from Manhattan. But most of the 166 runners who started last week's annual Boston Marathon could be counted on to drop out soon after the 26-mile, 385-yd. grind began, and Boston wags suggested that the Exeter Street finish line should be rechristened the Finnish line. Finnish runners had won the B.A.A. Marathon four times...
...emergency beacon flashing, the ambulance sped through the quiet, post-holiday streets of Georgetown to the red brick home of President-elect John Kennedy. Driver Baucom and Attendant Walter Myers were admitted by a maid. A few minutes later they were joined by Dr. John Walsh, the family obstetrician. In her second-floor bedroom they found Jacqueline Kennedy waiting, with a white sweater and a tweed coat over her nightgown, a pair of white wool socks on her feet. She gave them a wan smile. "Will I lose my baby?'' she asked the doctor apprehensively (Jackie Kennedy...
...Hospital, a crowd gathered outside. Just before noon, Queen Farah Diba, a robust, 22-year-old commoner who still holds the Iranian schoolgirls' record for the high and standing broad jump, gave birth. "Your Majesty, it's a boy!" cried Dr. Jahanshah Saleh, who is both the Queen's obstetrician and Iran's Minister of Health. The Shah raised his hands over his head in thanks to Allah for the heir for whom he had been hoping 21 years...
...growing pains." Their business is booming, and because they treat the whole child (thus slopping all over the territory of most other specialists), they take on much of the aura of the oldfashioned family doctor. But even they complain: they would like to get their patients away from the obstetrician more promptly after birth, and some want to edge into consultation on the mother's condition before delivery...