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...such examples are exceptions, the profession itself admits enough errors to give people pause. Doctors confess that too many unnecessary operations are performed-at attractive fees. After a study of 6,248 hysterectomies, Dr. James C. Doyle concluded that one-third "seemed to be unwarranted." Harvard's Dr. Osier Peterson, assistant visiting professor of preventive medicine, notes that tonsillectomies, "which most academicians agree is a useless operation," make up 6% of all U.S. operations-while they comprise only a fraction of 1% in Sweden...
...William Osier...
...later laws largely curbed the worst abuses of the snake-oil salesmen, but the "desire to take medicine" that Osier noted still dies hard. The biggest medicine-show extravaganza of all, says Author Carson, was staged in 1950 with Dixieland bands and Hollywood stars to promote a $1.25-a-bottle tonic that pulled in millions for a spellbinding Louisiana legislator named Dudley J. LeBlanc. The potion was called Hadacol, and it contained 12% alcohol. The Hadacol empire wound up in a tangle of bankruptcy proceedings...
Born in New Hampshire, the son and grandson of physicians, Dr. Whipple got his M.D. at Johns Hopkins under such great teachers as Sir William Osier and Harvey Gushing, and soon became a teacher and investigator in their tradition. After getting a medical research unit started at the University of California, Dr. Whipple was lured East to be the first dean of what was, in 1921, little more than a scar on the face of the earth: the University of Rochester's new School of Medicine and Dentistry. In his 32 years as dean, Dr. Whipple made...
...seats and enjoy the smooth, gliding ride, only a few oldtimers sighed for the cumbersome elegance of the tortugas in their heyday. Then the streetcars were used for fashionable funerals, and the wife of Dictator Porfirio Díaz had her own private streetcar, furnished with silk curtains, revolving osier seats, spittoons and magazine racks...