Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...washbasins. Blood streamed down his face from a cut over his left eye. Attendants and friends put him back on his feet, iced his eye, buttoned him up, ushered him from the club. He was put into a taxicab, sent back to his Manhattan hotel where a house physician patched...
...generally agreed that the U.S. is the unsafest place in the world to have a baby. Some reasons: abortions; faulty technic of physician or nurse, resulting in puerperal infection; lack of sufficient good maternity hospitals; insufficient obstetrical training for the general physician; inadequate prenatal care; prevalence of attempts to shorten labor by use of pituitrin to quicken uterine contractions, application of forceps, turning of the baby, forced dilation of the cervix, caesarean operations...
While County Physician Charles H. Mitchell angrily decried what he called "weird cult practices," New Jersey officials suspended the sanatorium's license, began an investigation. Last fortnight Ten Acres was once more allowed to accept patients, on these conditions: 1) it may accept no surgical or contagious cases, no mental cases committable to a public hospital; 2) all entering patients must be examined by a licensed physician whose diagnosis must be reported at once to the State and to the patient or his guardian...
...like this." When Dr. Mary Stevens (Kay Francis) makes this comment, she has just used one of her hairpins to extract a diaper-fastener from an infant's larynx. It is one of the few incidents in the picture that really concerns the professional problems of a female physician. The rest of Mary Stevens, M.D. is about Mary Stevens' non-professional activities which are almost entirely unfortunate. She becomes infatuated with a ne'er-do-well surgeon (Lyle Talbot) who marries the blonde daughter (Thelma Todd) of a bigwig politician and deserts his serious interest in medicine...
...Next morning at exercise he fell into a frenzy. Brought before the prison's acting governor, he was sentenced to three days in solitary confinement. As two guards led him toward the silence cell, he struggled frantically fell injured himself. Fifteen minutes later he was dead. The prison physician affirmed that "the prisoner was a healthy man of average intelligence and sound mind." But Brigadier-General Edward Louis Spears, husband of U.S.-born Novelist Mary Borden, spoke he shocked opinion of many an Englishman when he uprose in Parliament to berate the prison governor. General Spears declared that Thomas...