Word: physician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Free medical care and drugs provided by the Capitol physician. Low rates at Bethesda Naval Hospital...
...independent physician familiar with such cases agreed yesterday that in its early stages, appendicitis is sometimes hard to diagnose because the pain is not yet localized in the lower abdomen...
...Exchequer Denis Healey, 59, who had long wanted the job. Last week Prime Minister James Callaghan instead chose a dark horse: Dr. David Owen, 38, an ambitious, handsome neurologist-turned-politician who has been Crosland's deputy for the past eleven months. Born in Devon to a physician father, Owen developed his socialist convictions while working in National Health Service hospitals, and first won a Parliament seat from Plymouth in 1966. Britain's youngest Foreign Secretary since Anthony Eden was named to the post in 1935, Owen got the job partly by default: Healey apparently felt that...
While emphasizing the need to see a physician, given certain symptoms, the handbook also stresses that too much doctoring is as bad as too little: "If the disease is comparatively minor, and the symptoms are minor, it is better to try to get by without medication." Above all, it makes a strong pitch for physical fitness, endorsing everything from swimming to sex: "The body is far more likely to rust out than wear out; the more it is used the better it will function." The same might be said of Symptoms...
Although he has been called a novelist of ideas, Walker Percy, 60, is less a philosopher than a physician to the public weal. Tuberculosis prevented him from using the M.D. he earned in 1941, but The Moviegoer (1962), Percy's first novel and a National Book Award winner, demonstrated his remarkable diagnostic skill. In it and two later novels, he specialized in asking probing questions: Why are people with every outward trapping of happiness so miserable? Where and why does it hurt...