Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis in 1931. That trial had been featured by the arrival in Mrs. Muench's home of a baby, which she called "a gift from God in my time of distress." Wealthy, Socialite Dr. Marsh Pitzman of St. Louis, who once shared offices with Mrs. Muench's physician husband, certified the baby was hers. The conspiracy charge was brought when the child was later proved to be a servant girl's bastard (TIME, Dec. 16). In court last week Dr. Pitzman suddenly confessed what had long been suspected: that he had been redheaded Mrs. Muench...
...convention next month will condemn a practice which has spread through California. In San Francisco and Los Angeles a doctorless patient may march into a hospital, get a complete diagnosis by X-ray men, pathologists, urinoscopists and other technicians. Since diagnosis has been the prerogative of the practicing physician, "the provision of such diagnostic medical service will inevitably foster fundamental changes in the practice of medicine. . . . Therefore be it Resolved, That . . . [this] practice be terminated as speedily as possible...
...Shoes designed to correct foot trouble must be approved by the A. M. A. before a conscientious physician may prescribe them...
...Staats Newcomer, 47, of Manhattan, remembers the qualms she suffered when a Syracuse University nose & throat specialist wanted to remove her tonsils. Although at the time she was a medical student of that University, she scooted home to her family doctor. "I knew," said she last week, "this beloved physician was not in a position to tell me more about my throat than the man who had already spoken so authoritatively on the subject. But he did know a great deal about my general health and background and I wished to add his opinion to that of the specialist...
Neither idle rich, idle Brain Trusters nor idle politicians would be inoffensive to 1936 public taste. Therefore as the President fished from his modest yacht in the Bahamas last week he had with him only his military and naval aides, his physician and two relatives. One was his firstborn, James. The other was his 72-year-old Uncle Frederic Adrian Delano, onetime president of the Wabash R. R., onetime (1914-18) member of the Federal Reserve Board, one of whose current hobbies is Washington's Park & Planning Commission and whose most recent job, given him fortnight...