Word: pediatrician
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...pathologist, just getting set on the course which was to make him the nation's top authority on cancer. He needed an assistant but when she applied, he said, "No, I don't want a woman." Strong-willed Dr. L'Esperance got the job. The pediatrician became a working pathologist overnight, improved her skill and knowledge by doing autopsies at the New York City Morgue in its less sanitary days. Dr. L'Esperance's job with Ewing lasted more than 30 years...
Peterson, Book III, by William Carlos Williams. The third volume of a jumpy but virile four-part poem by a New Jersey pediatrician who versifies between cases (TIME...
...baby cared for only by her mother. She developed splendidly until five months of age, at which time the mother was suddenly called away from home. The infant was left in charge of an aunt, who had been given the most minute instructions as to her care. The pediatrician told the aunt not to take the child from her crib (to preserve the child's excellent routine). By the end of the first week the child was found rolling violently from side to side, and had begun to scratch her face. She became constipated . . . the same type of reaction occurred...
...conclusions are obvious; a pediatrician had turned a normal child into a constipated neurotic...
Peterson, Book III, by William Carlos Williams. The third volume of a jumpy but virile four-part poem by a New Jersey pediatrician who versifies between cases (TIME...