Word: pediatrician
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Last Sunday night, for example, Mrs. Theodore Brown, wife of a third-year law student, was having baby trouble. Her 13-month-old daughter, Pamela, had been wheezing all evening. Her husband was out of town. Her pediatrician was in Manchester for the weekend. Along about midnight, she was afraid that the wheezing might be something serious...
...schools (they chose different ones). The doctor insisted on only one thing: they must all take a turn in postgraduate training in general practice. He wanted no "cockeyed specialists" in his family. The boys obeyed-but came out specialists anyway. Herbert (the eldest) and Paul became surgeons, William a pediatrician, Philip an obstetrician-gynecologist, Carl (the youngest) an eye, ear, nose and throat...
...member can choose his group and "family doctor," is entitled to 24-hour service. An internist will take care of the patient's stomachaches, an obstetrician will shepherd his wife through maternity, a pediatrician will look after his children -and nobody will worry about fees...
...modern pediatricians are suggesting a dreadfully old-fashioned practice: putting newborn babies in the same room with their mothers. Mrs. Frances P. Sim-sarian, mother of two, and Pediatrician Preston Alexander McLendon of Washington have made some happy discoveries about the procedure. Last month they enthusiastically told Journal of Pediatrics readers...
Died. Dr. Sara Josephine Baker, 71, famed pediatrician who overcame male professional prejudice to head the first U.S. child-hygiene bureau in New York City (later copied in nearly every State), brought down the infant death rate from 144 per 1,000 births in 1907 to 66 per 1,000 in 1923; from a heart ailment; in Manhattan. In recent years she shared a farm near Princeton, N.J. with two other noted spinsters: Authoress I. A. R. Wylie, 59, and Dr. Louise Pearce, 59, top-ranking woman doctor with the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research...