Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early this week in a growing blizzard, Princess Juliana was driven from her suburban home to the hospital. At her side was Prince Bernhard. Awaiting her was her attending physician, Dr. John F. Puddicombe...
Most Chinese never see a doctor from life's beginning to its end. To provide one physician for each 1,500 of the population as planned in the wartime U.S., China would need 270,000 doctors. She has 9,000, perhaps half in the occupied areas...
...Kennedy began as Galesburg's bad boy. At Galesburg's Knox College he had such fun with firecrackers that he was temporarily expelled. He finally finished three years' work, progressed to Northwestern University to study dentistry. When graduation neared in 1941, Nome's only physician, Dr. Thomas Morcam, arrived at Northwestern to interest a dentist in Nome's teeth. Several volunteered, but Kennedy got the job because of his eagerness, brash temperament, lack of family ties, and a perforated eardrum which the Army found distasteful...
...George Hoyt Whipple, professor of pathology at the University of Rochester, George Richards Minot, professor of medicine at Harvard, William Parry Murphy, practicing physician in Boston and associate at Harvard-a trio who shared (1934) the prize in physiology and medicine for their discovery of liver therapy for anemia...
They fell in love in Johannesburg. Bennie Hermer was the young resident physician in Durban's King Edward VIII Hospital. Olda Mehr was a concert pianist, pretty, 18, with glowing black eyes. When she won the Royal Music Academy Award in 1938, she sailed for London, promising she would come back in a year to be married...