Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible, forget the Treasury. . . . Unfortunately I am not exactly built that way. ... I have tried faithfully to carry out your suggestions, but it has been a failure. ... I feel that I must tender my resignation and seek complete rest and a change of climate. My physician has told me that unless I do this he will not be responsible for the outcome...
...have obstetricians gone wrong? Chiefly, said the committee, in resorting to operations and anesthesia. Competent authorities say that in only 5% of all deliveries need the physician do anything but help Nature. Yet in 67 New York hospitals the investigators found that nearly 25% of deliveries were made with the aid of instruments. To these mothers death came five times as frequently as to those who bore their children naturally. Said the committee: "A certain indictment of those undertaking interference" with Nature...
...medieval prudery. Surprisingly, the committee found that though New York City has 863 licensed midwives who attend about 10% of all deliveries, midwives were to blame for only 2.2% of the preventable deaths. For normal, home deliveries, the committee concluded that a competent midwife is as good as a physician, recommended that more midwives be trained...
Enlisting the aid of Dr. W. M. Conant '79, who thereby became the Varsity's first physician, Stuart whipped his men into topnotch condition by stiff training unknown to previous teams...
...Hollywood producers confine themselves to the humdrum mishaps of prostitutes, millionaires and college footballers, Carl Laemmle Jr's Universal studio specializes darkly in supernatural pasquinades. The hero of The Invisible Man is as nasty a pumpkinhead as Frankenstein's monster or The Mummy. He is a young physician named Griffin, whose love for beauteous Flora Cranley (Gloria Stuart) is not sufficient to prevent him from discovering a drug which not only makes him invisible but turns him simultaneously into a homicidal lunatic...