Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friend Indeed. Dr. Neset Arcan was a well-known Ankara physician, consultant to many embassies, including the Russian. Late one afternoon in October 1945, a young man walked into Arcan's consulting room, pumped seven shots into the doctor and got away-not without being seen. Five eyewitnesses agreed that the youth was slight, fair and high-cheek-boned. Nonetheless, when heavyset, dark, round-faced Resit Merdjan confessed to the crime, the court barreled the case through, carefully refrained from calling the eyewitnesses, and sentenced Merdjan to 25 years. Slight, fair, high-cheekboned Hashmet Orbay, son of the chief...
Your remarks regarding my editorial in the American Journal of Surgery . . . made for an erroneous indictment of both the physician and the psychiatrist. I neither said nor implied that "Almost every patient who dies of carcinoma . . . has been diagnosed as a psychoneurotic" [TIME, June 21]. The dots delete the important words: "of the body or tail of the pancreas." This tumor . . . gives no physical signs and produces no symptoms other than a vague abdominal pain, and furthermore, defies all methods of diagnosis including X-ray and laboratory studies. Only surgical exploration will provide the answer...
Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire (ret.), longtime physician to Franklin Roosevelt, was treated for bruises after he: 1) addressed the American Red Cross convention in San Francisco; 2) fell off the flower-banked speakers' platform...
...best treatment? The two doctors recommended injections of ergotamine tartrate as soon as the headache starts. If this fails, try codeine. Also helpful: rest in bed in a quiet, dark room; an ice bag; sympathy from physician, family and friends. For long-range treatment, the migraine sufferer should work and plan less, rest and exercise more. Dr. Wolff has another treatment for headaches of the migraine type: standing on the head.* The upside-down position, he believes, causes a "constriction reflex" that eases the swelling in the arteries...
...Without the usual polite little note of farewell, President Truman dropped Dr. Thomas Parran from his job as: 1. White House physician. 2. Army Surgeon General. 3. Navy Surgeon General. 4. U.S. Public Health Service Surgeon General. 5. Medical advisor for Indian reservations...