Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hallowed traditions. Voluntary and public hospitals, local points of pride for years, will be bought by the state. Private medical practice, while not abolished, will not be encouraged, and patients engaging private doctors will have to pay twice, in effect-once to the Government in taxes, once to the physician. Medical practices may no longer be sold to other doctors, but will be bought by the Government, dealt out to applicants from needy areas. Doctors who join the system will earn a civil-service salary, plus additional small fees for each patient...
Most startling fact: Hitler's personal physician, Dr. Theodor Morell, had been a mere quack. He made a large fortune out of his job, pumped vast amounts of narcotics, stimulants, aphrodisiacs or just plain colored water into Hitler, slowly undermining his bourgeois good health...
...literary life began in 1910, when, to stimulate attendance at his church in San Francisco, he wrote a 50,000-word Biblical novel called The Emperor's Physician and read it, a chapter at a time, to his congregation. With the beginning of World War II and the growing audience for books with a Christian theme, Author Perkins resurrected the manuscript, rewrote and expanded it, got it published. The People's Book Club (operated by Sears, Roebuck) selected it for Christmas 1944, plugged its sales to nearly 250,000 copies...
...cardinal-elect might not travel to Rome: Johannes de Jong of Utrecht, Holland's first cardinal since the Reformation, whose physician decided he had not yet recovered from a recent motor accident. His red hat would be brought to him by a papal legate...
...Witness Alfred Balachowsky, physician, remembered thousands of men & women whose livers were removed, who were shot with poisoned bullets or infected with typhus bacilli by German scientists. Said French Prosecutor Charles Dubost: "German medical literature is very rich in experiments on adults who died suddenly between the hours...