Word: physician
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...President's physician, Dr. Walter Tkach, underscored the importance that Nixon had attached to his foreign trips, and the determined - even incautious - way in which he had declined to delay them. Contrary to previous White House reports, said Tkach last week, the blood clot loose in the President's left leg "could have killed him." Tkach, who has been criticized for allowing the President to travel while suffering from phlebitis, had urged Nixon to go into a hospital in Salzburg, Austria, during the early stages of his first trip. The President refused, saying that he had an "obligation...
Higher office rents, the mounting costs of equipment and rising wages for office personnel are all contributing to the increasingly steep price that doctors everywhere must pay to practice their profession. In New York State last week, overhead costs grew still more. Premiums for malpractice insurance-which almost every physician carries to protect himself against lawsuits by his patients-rose by a whopping 93.5%. The increase will make the state's doctors pay the highest average malpractice rates in the nation and could have an enormous influence upon the way medicine is practiced...
...number of suits has been increasing partly because patients are better informed and less tolerant of physicians' mistakes-which do happen more often than doctors would like to admit. Ever more dependent upon specialists, patients also feel fewer qualms about suing a brain surgeon or dermatologist than they would their old and trusted family physician. At the same time, fat malpractice cases are more and more appealing to lawyers, who stand to keep as much as one-third to one-half of any damages awarded by a court...
Paul T. Jordan, 33, was a young physician in charge of a Jersey City drug-rehabilitation center in the late 1960s when he joined the Community Action Council, a local group of disgruntled citizens. When then Mayor Thomas Whelan was packed off to prison for extortion and conspiracy in 1971, Democrat Jor dan won a special election to become the youngest mayor in Jersey City history and end the corrupt, malodorous 57-year dynasty of Bosses Frank Hague and John V. Kenny. Since taking office, he has announced plans for a $2 billion renovation of the city's waterfront...
Died. Ernest Henry Gruening, 87, former U.S. Senator from Alaska; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Son of a New York physician, Gruening graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1912, then abandoned medicine for journalism. He resigned as managing editor of the Boston Traveler when its publisher retracted an exposé of mayoral malfeasance; then he successively edited the Boston Journal, New York Tribune and the Nation, and became a diehard New Dealer. Named Governor of Alaska by President Roosevelt in 1939, Gruening forced absentee salmon and gold interests to pay their fair share of territorial taxes. After agitating successfully...