Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tragic results-e.g., a young boy in one rural town recently died of acute appendicitis for lack of a doctor to diagnose his case. When Dr. Harry Leslie Frost of Pittsford died, he left thousands of patients in the town and surrounding mountains without medical care. The young physician in nearby Proctor, who is trying to cope with Dr. Frost's practice as well as his own, now has between 6,000 and 7,000 people on his list. TIME'S correspondent explained that no doctors have come out of retirement to help the situation "because...
...states, with a combined population of 54,500,000, are expected to have more than 1,500 persons per physician ... and seven of these will have more than...
...prewar Government, he said, was corrupt and weak-stomached ("Always doddering ... it has no roots in the soil and is ... like a cut flower in a vase"), and it was up to Nakano to return Japan to the path of greatness. In the sword he saw the surest physician for Japan's ailments; in Hitler and Mussolini he saw proof that his prescription was right...
...Said Physician Charles Hill, also over BBC: "Piccadilly Circus and its equivalent in other large cities is a disgrace and we know...
A.M.Animosity. From all over the U.S., at salaries of $450 a month and up, Garfield hired the best doctors he could persuade to risk American Medical Association ostracism. (A.M.A. routinely objects when a patient is denied free choice of physician.) In California, more social-minded than most states, the Medical Association was not so obdurate: after a short period of skepticism, the local California doctors cooperated fully with Garfield's 60 physicians. But the Northern Permanente Hospital at Vancouver ran afoul of the A.M.A.'s "invisible hand": through the Government's Procurement and Assignment Service, the A.M.A...