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...raised my hand to examine her abdomen," Dr. Gerisch reports in the Harper Hospital Bulletin, "she drew up her legs and started to laugh, even before I touched her. Her mother said their pediatrician had never been able to examine her abdomen. I said, 'Put your right hand there' (right upper quadrant). 'Does that tickle?' She said no. I said, 'Put your hand down there' (right lower quadrant). 'Does that tickle?' She said no. Then I placed my hand on top of her hand, and asked whether it tickled, and she said...
Since 1960, all prescriptions filled at Johns Hopkins Hospital pharmacy have automatically included the generic (chemical) name of the drug. This is better than a trade name, says Hopkins' famed Pediatrician Helen B. Taussig, because her investigation of thalidomide deformities showed that the drug had been sold under at least 53 trade names, and possibly as many...
Most notable is the medical school (one prof: Dr. Spock, the famed pediatrician), where all subjects are correlated and taught together; every student is apprenticed to a family to learn the bedside manner. Western Reserve is biggest in science, has 450 research projects, spent $3,000,000 on a new lab just to lure two star biologists from Cornell. Also thriving: the school of library science, an automation-aimed academy specializing in the new arts of "information retrieval...
...remove a narrowed section of the aorta-a crippling and potentially fatal defect with which some babies are born. Baltimore's Dr. Al fred Blalock opened the field for surgery directly on a malformed heart with the first blue-baby operation, which he devised in 1944 with Pediatrician Helen Taussig...
...most fundamental approach to prompt treatment for the mentally ill, and is now being acclaimed as the nation's second most advanced state in the promotion of mental health-after neighboring Kansas. Guided by Dr. Cecil W. Wittson, Nebraska's program aims at training the family doctor, pediatrician, internist and obstetrician-gynecologist to handle the everyday emotional problems of their patients. The Nebraska Psychiatric Institute invites family doctors to Omaha for training in consultation and observation of patients. They may even bring their own patients along for study. Back home, they are expected to set aside one half...