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...last July by the Medical College of Alabama in Birmingham. Until the advent of MIST, all the woman's doctor could have done was to seek help at random. Instead, he was able to telephone a central switchboard; the operator immediately put him through to MIST's pharmacologist, whose specialized knowledge may have saved the patient's life...
Such stereotyped prescribing is extremely unsound, says Pharmacologist Sumner Kalman of Stanford University. "There is no average man who always needs a particular dose of this or that drug on a certain daily schedule," Dr. Kalman notes. Even patients who are identical in sex and size do not absorb a drug into the bloodstream at the same rate. Their systems do not metabolize the drug at the same rate. Moreover, their reactions to a drug may range all the way from nil to collapse and sudden death as a result of severe allergic shock. "The fate of a drug...
...Alexander Lenard. Two years ago, the author charmed his way into literary life with the succes fou of the season-a translation into Latin of Winnie the Pooh. In this book, as charming in its way as Pooh was, Lenard tells of his life as a doctor and pharmacologist in a remote village in southern Brazil and his genially picaresque philosophy of life...
Same day, Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey (who used to be a pharmacist himself) summoned his Government Operations subcommittee to hear FDA Commissioner George P. Larrick and Pharmacologist Kelsey. Canadian-born Dr. Kelsey, 48, a low-heeled, no-nonsense woman who has practiced medicine besides teaching pharmacology, was a new employee at FDA in September 1960. Her first major assignment was to pass on the application of Cincinnati's William S. Merrell Co. for a license to market thalidomide in the U.S. under the trade name Kevadon.* Along with the application came a sheaf of reports on years...
Other doctors are becoming seriously concerned at the public's widespread demand for the pills. "Could they," wondered a Boston pharmacologist, "make millions of people significantly indifferent to politics-or to their responsibilities as automobile drivers?" Says one G.P.: "Some doctors seem to prescribe a pill for almost any talkative patient-for people who aren't true neurotics. But what such people often need is precisely a chance to talk." Other doctors cautioned against prescribing the pills for every patient with an emotional upset. Concludes Baltimore Psychiatrist Frank Ayd Jr.: "Although the tranquilizers are beneficial to emotionally disturbed...