Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mitchell last week recalled that Golfer Rockefeller, a stickler for rules was slightly perturbed one day when his physician teed his ball a full foot in front of the markers. With painstaking care. Rockefeller teed his own ball exactly on a line with the red marker, dryly observed: "I always play the full course, Doctor." Equally hateful of waste, he once drove a brand new ball into the rough, hunted it for ten minutes, finally asked his caddy what his cronies would do in a similar situation. The caddy retorted that they would look for a minute, then drop...
Died. Harold Ball Disbrow, 47, long time personal physician to John D. Rockefeller, 96 (see p. 56); of apoplexy; in Lakewood...
Laws against performing abortions vary from Mississippi, "where an abortion is permitted by any person who acts on advice of a physician," to New Hampshire, "where any person who wilfully administers a drug or uses an instrument to procure an abortion is punished by fine or imprisonment...
...Taussig gives the following advice to doctors who find themselves called upon to perform therapeutic abortions: "Since the physician must in every case of abortion strive to keep his name clear of any suspicion of malpractice, it is naturally preferable for him to treat every patient with this condition in a hospital, where records are kept and the presence of nurse or interne prevents any possible efforts at blackmailing by unscrupulous persons. It is relatively easy for a man in city practice to carry this out, but in a very considerable number of cases handled in country or small town...
...using the opportunity to demand a hospital for Moosetown. When he gets back, he finds that the trading company which runs Moosetown has put the town sheriff on his track for practicing medicine without the license he is too poor to pay for and has installed a resident physician of its own. It appears to Dr. Luke that his life work in the community is over. He is sadly boarding a boat to leave Moosetown for the last time when his most reliable patient, whose first six children Dr. Luke has brought into the world, runs up to the gang...