Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demonstration. In Winnipeg, Gordon Lillyman lost a finger in a candy-rolling machine, was showing the plant physician how it happened, when he lost another...
Grossman & Allen suggest that refrigeration might even make it possible to restore an amputated arm or leg: "If a limb is fairly cleanly amputated, for example in a sawmill accident, there is a challenge to any nearby physician to pack such a part in ice and send it along with the patient to a hospital...
Decrying the old family doctor is a fashionable medical pastime. Of the 170,000 U.S. physicians, more than half (55%) are now classed as specialists-and the specialist class is growing. Only last fortnight, Dean Willard C. Rappleye of Columbia University's School of Medicine predicted that group practice in community hospitals will eventually do away with the independent general practitioner. Said Dr. Rappleye: "Medical knowledge is now so complex . . . that . . . complete medical service can no longer be rendered by an individual physician alone...
...author of this work, which the publishers hope will be as history-making in its way as Uncle Tom's Cabin, is Dr. Harold Thomas Hyman, a top Manhattan physician and longtime Columbia pharmacology professor. A general practitioner himself, whose interests range from psychoanalysis to syphilis (TIME, April 22, 1940), Dr. Hyman was spurred by a deep conviction that medicine is an art as well as a science. He and a group of specialists spent six years compiling the five volumes...
...physician has lost the 'feel' of the patient's home. The patient, in turn, has been separated from his 'Doc' by receptionists, internes, residents, admitting physicians, house-officers, ward assistants, dispensary workers, specialists, subspecialists, nurses, social service workers, dietitians, etc. . . . Overall knowledge and responsibility for the human life are the province of no one practitioner...