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Manhattan obstetrician, gives this life-and-death subject the full treatment for 450 illustration-packed pages, comes to some unconventional conclusions...
...Evenou lived in a fashionable house in suburban Choisy-le-Roi (of which he was once the mayor) and was regarded as a fine obstetrician. But most of his patients in Choisy thought it wiser not to call him to their sickbeds after nightfall: he often showed more than a professional interest in women. His third marriage in 1946 to gentle, adoring Marie-Claire Milhavet seemed an answer to all his problems. Marie-Claire was not only pretty and well-to-do but astonishingly broadminded. Eleven years after their marriage, Dr. Evenou was happily established at the head...
Cavities & a Grave. Dr. James L. Gilmore, a Pittsburgh obstetrician, had consulted Graham about what he believed to be a lung abscess. Graham jolted him with the news: it was cancer. Gilmore went home to Pittsburgh to decide whether he wanted an operation to remove the diseased part of his lung. In a few days he returned, ready for the operation, and told Surgeon Graham that while in Pittsburgh he had had some teeth filled. Said Graham with a laugh: "I like an optimistic patient." Replied Gilmore: "Yes, but I ought to tell you that I also bought a cemetery...
...Seattle doctors seemed sold the free program. "I've never known doctors to be so unanimous," said Dr. F. Lee, the obstetrician in charge of the drive. "Why in the whole thing, I've only been called an s.o.b. once." Most medical groups in other cities were either slicing or eliminating vaccination fees. Clinics in and around Pittsburgh have shot some 170,000 people under 20 in the past month. Houston hopes to inoculate 200,000 during a twelve-hour polio blitz on St. Patrick...
...This obstetrician's nightmare is not confirmed by the records, which only say that Richard was a small, sickly infant, eleventh child of "quiet, solid" Richard, Duke of York. He was still a negligible, unnoticed boy when his big, handsome brother chopped his way to the throne as Edward IV. Richard became a Knight of the Bath and of the Garter. He was then nine. Next year he became Admiral of England. Ireland and Aquitaine. When he was 16, he wrote a letter asking a friend to lend him 100 pounds. That is substantially all that the records have...