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Standing Up. Anesthesiologist Barbara Lipton encountered a typical response while interning at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She held retractors for a neurosurgeon during a particularly long operation. The surgeon, duly impressed with her perseverance, sent her a Christmas greeting: "To one of the boys." Says Pediatrician-Hematologist Darleen Powars: "There are hundreds of ways to discourage woman surgeons. There's no place for a woman resident to sleep. And if you want to urinate some other way than standing up, you have a problem...
...pediatrician in Grand Junction, Dr. Robert Ross, noticed an increase in the number of cleft palates and other birth defects in the area, and communicated his concern to Dr. C. Henry Kempe, chairman of the pediatrics department at the University of Colorado's Medical Center. Their joint studies, reported last October, indicated that the incidence of cleft lip and palate was almost twice as high in the Grand Junction area as for the rest of Colorado, the birth rate significantly lower, the death rate from congenital anomalies 50% higher...
...claims for the gadget-laden crib typify a growing trend in child psychology toward forced early education and "programmed enrichment." Now Harvard Pediatrician Richard Feinbloom has strongly urged the American Academy of Pediatrics to take a stand against it. At the organization's recent annual meeting, he maintained that elaborate educational toys for infants are no be' er playthings than pots and pans. As a matter of fact, he said, their use, especially in the elaborate new "crib environments," may endanger normal intellectual and emotional development...
...When you are describing a disaster," Ronald Glasser explains, "you talk to the victims." Glasser is a young Minneapolis pediatrician who was drafted in 1968 and assigned to the Army hospital at Camp Zama, Japan. His job there was to care for the children of military families. But his attention was soon absorbed by the hospital's more specific mission-mending the thousands of shattered soldiers who were flown in from battle in Viet Nam. Glasser began listening to the wounded in his off hours, then writing their stories down. Though his previous literary experience was limited to "fiddling...
...even the victim of mishandling by his mother. He was simply what used to be known as a difficult child, and chances are that he was born that way. So, at least, believe Psychiatrists Alexander Thomas and Stella Chess, of the New York University School of Medicine, and Pediatrician Herbert Birch, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine...