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...recently swabbed with a filthy mop ("The mop gets in the wound more than the hemostat"). Other Walter points: ¶Hospitals pay their workers so little that they get only the poorly educated, who cannot understand the difference between "clean" and truly germfree. Further, the help get little on-the-job training. ¶ Doctors rely too much on antibiotics, ignoring the fact that bacteria which defy the antibiotics stay around hospitals...
...three years ago, he made a name as a quiet, hard-working administrator and top assistant to Secretary Thomas. By boosting Gates to the Secretary's chair, Eisenhower again proved his preference for giving top-ranking positions to Administration juniors who have gone through a tour of on-the-job training...
...completely nix about Nixon? Exclusive of Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower, I doubt if anyone in this entire nation knows more about the complex functions of the Federal Government than our young V.P. He has had more solid experience in the past four years, more grass-roots on-the-job training for the presidency than any other man. Ike has done his best to demonstrate that Dick is No. 2 man on the team. Nixon merits Ike's unqualified support. He deserves our confidence and, certainly, he has won my admiration...
...A.A.G.P. and through the American Medical Association, hospitals report a 50% increase in operating G.P. departments since 1952; a dozen of the 81 medical schools in the country have set up special G.P. programs. The "preceptor" system, whereby an intern divides his time between a central hospital and on-the-job training with a G.P., has spread from 9 schools in 1950 to 22, now equips some 1,000 each year to be family doctors if they choose...
...stenographer suffering from "droopy bosom" should never never try to conceal the fact by falling into the posture known as "secretarial slump." The droopy area must instead be frankly and firmly put to rights, not only by "corrective exercises" at home but "on-the-job grooming" during office hours. Neglected or ignored, it will all result in "dowager's hump" as a matter of course, and while this more serious condition is not incorrigible, it is certainly in a graver category than mere slump. Indeed, the whole of Glamour Expert Lilly Dache's book is a warning...