Word: patient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Politicians hand out humbug to the voters-but so does lawyer to jury, doctor to patient, actor to audience, salesman to customer, parson to parish. The politician's condition is that, though human and with himself to care for, he is also the public's servant, subject to idealized standards and extraordinary publicity...
Thus recognized, the osteopaths at the Kirksville convention last week had little to rage about. They decided to fight this coming year for the right of a citizen to have the care of a licensed osteopath, if he wants one, when he becomes a patient in any hospital or other public welfare institution supported by taxes or receiving state aid. They elected as their next president Dr. D. L. Clark of Denver; to succeed Dr. George V. Webster of Carthage...
...Stalin is too rough, and this fault, entirely supportable in relations among us Communists, becomes insupportable in the office of general secretary. Therefore I propose to the comrades to find a way to remove Stalin from that position and appoint to it another man who differs from Stalin-more patient, more loyal, more polite, and more attentive to comrades, less capricious." . . . Rugged Dictator Josef Stalin and facile Propagandist Nikolai Bukharin are striving and succeeding with a program of discrediting Trotsky in Russia. Every book or newspaper article concerning him is censored, suppressed or distorted. New textbooks of Soviet history have...
Criminals condemned to Death would be offered, under the law, a free choice between execution and inoculation with cancer. Twelve years would be the legal period of vivisection, and if, at the end of that time, the patient survived and had been cured he or she would return to society purged of guilt and perhaps honored as a hero, heroine...
Diabetics who must munch bran rolls, bran biscuits, bran cookies, bran bread, were cheered to learn last week that a fine white cracker has been prepared for their delectation. In appearance like the simple soda cracker, this delicacy is the result of years of patient experimenting by the departments of Physiological Chemistry, of Food and Cookery in Teachers College, Columbia University. The basis of the biscuit is intarvin, a specially constructed fat discovered by Dr. Max Kahn, of the College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1923. Dr. William John Gies of the Department of Biological Chemistry at Teachers College, directed experiments...