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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general practitioners had eventually signed up. To ease their pain, Health Minister Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan had held out a placebo: his government had no plans to make the doctors full-time civil servants. They would get a "base pay" of about $3.50 a year for each patient on their books. Estimated top income, with all extras, like obstetrics : $20,000. Estimated income for a solo practitioner with the maximum 4,000 patients...
Your remarks regarding my editorial in the American Journal of Surgery . . . made for an erroneous indictment of both the physician and the psychiatrist. I neither said nor implied that "Almost every patient who dies of carcinoma . . . has been diagnosed as a psychoneurotic" [TIME, June 21]. The dots delete the important words: "of the body or tail of the pancreas." This tumor . . . gives no physical signs and produces no symptoms other than a vague abdominal pain, and furthermore, defies all methods of diagnosis including X-ray and laboratory studies. Only surgical exploration will provide the answer...
After 20 years of study, Drs. Eli Moschowitz and Mata B. Roudin wrote their formula down: "Constitution times psychologic trauma gives hyperkinesis which results in psychosomatic disease." Translation: mental or emotional shock makes certain organs overactive; the patient's personality determines which organs will be affected. The kind of personality, rather than the kind of shock, is the key. The same kind of shock (e.g., death of a relative or loss of a job) might give one type of man stomach ulcers, another, ulcerative colitis. In the current New York State Journal of Medicine, Drs. Moschowitz and Roudin wrapped...
Double Trouble. If a patient has two kinds of psychosomatic disease, it may be because he has overlapping personalities, or because one disease sets the other one in motion. Examples: high blood pressure often follows hyperthyroidism, hyperthyroidism often follows stomach ulcers; high blood pressure may follow or precede stomach ulcers...
Syphilis does not show up for about three weeks after the patient has been exposed. The newest treatment has been an expensive 7-to 16-day series of penicillin shots...