Word: physician
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...indictment against Kenneth Edelin, 35, the first black chief resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Boston City Hospital, is more dramatic than accurate. No one seriously believes that the popular physician beat a baby to death. Nor does anyone take literally the charges that four of Edelin's colleagues exhumed human bodies to get tissues for a series of studies conducted at the hospital. Yet in a brace of cases that could have far-reaching implications for research as well as women's rights, all stand indicted. Edelin, who performed a demonstrably legal abortion, is accused of manslaughter...
...interested to note that in two of the five case histories accompanying your cover story on alcoholism [April 22], the pattern of alcohol dependence was initiated by the advice of a physician. Such cases are not rare...
...When a physician advises the use of alcohol for its tranquilizing, sedative or antidepressive action for a patient undergoing unusual emotional distress, he or she is prescribing a dangerous drug, addictive in 5% to 10% of users. None of the normal controls on the use of a dangerous drug (e.g., medical supervision, control of dosage, need for periodic review and represcription, warnings of hazards and side effects) are present. The patient does not look upon alcohol as a drug and may be unaware of increasing dependence...
Saving a few lives continues to be more attractive to medical students than protecting against losses that can only be measured statistically. Emphasis on curative medicine also decreases the probability that patients in Third World countries will die of an easily curable disease while the physician stands by helpless without modern equipment...
Peter H. York '74, the injured student, was admitted to Cambridge City Hospital with first- and second-degree burns on his hands and face and a lacerated right wrist. He was officially listed by the hospital in fair condition yesterday, but Dr. Andrew Grimes, a Cambridge City Hospital physician, described his status as "next to excellent...