Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operation, he wrote, is simple: Public health workers refer sick and needy cases to local offices of the Health and Medical Association. After they join (and agree to foot, in the hazy future, the doctor's bills paid for them), the migrants are shipped to nearby physicians, or clinics, if any. Any registered physician may join the Association's panel. His fees are fixed according to schedules determined by the Association's board: a group of seven doctors and social workers from FSA, the California State Board of Health, the State Medical Association. Dentists, druggists and hospitals...
...witnesses began filing into the bare, dead-white death chamber. The doomed man, flanked by guards, came last, shuffled calmly toward the electric chair. Elliott fastened the head electrode in place, felt the doomed murderer shudder, joined Davis at the switch ten feet away. His head pounded. The prison physician waved his hand. "Now," whispered Davis...
Also a disease of metabolism, diabetes is an inability of the body to use sugars. Diabetics can absorb sugar into their bloodstream, but unlike hyperthyroid patients, they cannot burn it up. The sugars merely "stagnate" in the blood until they pass into the urine. A physician who finds an excess amount of sugar in his patient's urine may assume that he is suffering from both hyperthyroidism and diabetes. But the diseases need opposite treatments. Diabetics, who cannot make use of the sugars they already have, must be deprived of carbohydrates; hyperthyroids, who burn up their sugars too rapidly...