Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gallant Dr. Robertson, TIME'S profound apologies for attributing to him a remark supposed to have been overheard by Joseph Nearing, one of the first men to reach the entombed physician and his living and dead companions. Last week Overseer Scadding, the other survivor, was in danger of having ten gangrenous toes amputated as a result of the accident...
...jumped New York's Representative Edward Curley. "I am reminded," said he, "of the story told of that famous French philosopher and statesman, Voltaire, who in his dying days, during one of his sicknesses, said to his physician with respect to this bill: 'You are trying to convey drugs about which you know little into a body about which you know less to cure a disease about which you know nothing...
...literature of psychoanalysis is opulent in its imagery and in its broad vistas of potentiality. But it offers little for the general physician. The transplanted European analyst actively resents requests for information from a patient's regular doctor, and all psychoanalysts, in spite of their volubility in a living room or before some child-study association of young mothers, refuse to make to their colleagues reports of failure or confession of the limitations of their methods...
...week, has not grown up into a clean-cut profession. The specialists showed more skill in discovering mental and emotional defects than in remedying them. In particular they seemed lost in the woods of psychobiology. According to this conception, which Dr. Adolf Meyer of Baltimore created, the well-rounded physician should simultaneously treat the mind, soul and body of each patient. To do the job well the physician must learn how each factor of that trinity affects the other in health and disease. Among consequences of Dr. Meyer's teachings were studies tendered in St. Louis on "The Psychic...
...Latin American officials who attended the Third Pan American Conference of National Directors of Health in Washington last month. Also in an approving mood were Sumner Welles, Assistant U. S. Secretary of State in charge of Latin American affairs, and Dr. Ross Mclntire, President Roosevelt's White House physician whose ear Dr. Eller had held for many an hour. When Dr. Eller ceased speaking President Roosevelt warmed him with a smile, told him to turn the $7,000,000 of rich men's promises he had in his briefcase into cash, to start building soon as possible...