Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last ten in Philadelphia, without a degree. He has long been the untroubled butt of pained outcries by the Journal of the American Medical Association, of several legal charges and trials (for mayhem and dope peddling). He has been the subject of a movie (False Faces) in which a patient shoots a doctor after losing a suit for malpractice. Last month the Philadelphia Record began a series of articles on Quack Schireson's rise to Spruce Street and fortune. Last fortnight Pennsylvania's State Board of Medical Licensure had been roweled into an investigation which may cost Schireson...
Rotary Reconstructed. To get a line on Schireson, the Record sent a patient to consult him about making her neck prettier. She found a "heavyset man, sixtyish in appearance, dressed in youthful tweeds. His ready smile revealed excellent bridge-work." He said that a neck treatment would merely give her "a perfect neck, a throat of vibrant youth, topped by an aged face." She should have "a complete rotary reconstruction" to make her face as beautiful as her eyes. "Your eyes alone," said Schireson, "would be the dream of any plastic surgeon...
...Identified by another Schireson patient as New York's Governor Dewey, who allegedly had his nose improved by Quack Schireson. Said Dewey through his secretary: "Never head of Schireson...
...Army Is Right. Dr. Dock urged a return to the nursing customs of Florence Nightingale's day when all but prostrated patients got up for meals, bathroom going, etc. There is evidence that bedrest deaths have gone up since nursing became so expert that a patient never needs to move. He had many good words to say for the Army's convalescent program (TIME, Nov. 15), which makes men move uninjured parts of their bodies as soon as they can, and normally gets head injuries out of bed in a matter of days...
...last week's dry run was just for practice, much of the blood went to the American hospitals where blood is nice to have - whole blood is the best of all pick-me-ups for a weak patient - but not really needed. If unused for 20 days or so, the blood is thrown away; by then the corpuscles begin...