Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country has no colleges, and only 16 college graduates. It has only three lawyers. There is not a single Libyan physician, engineer, surveyor or pharmacist in the land. No more than 250,000 Libyans can write their own names; the rest use thumbprints as signatures. Eye diseases, especially trachoma, are so widespread that 10% of the population is blind...
...Bear River City, Utah hospital, but Rupert General Hospital, Rupert, Idaho, where the Ghees' baby was a patient. I was the infant's attending physician...
Physics & Foxes. The son of a Maine physician, Robert Wood began to be a legend when he was in grade school. At eight, he was giving his friends formal lectures on the anatomy of the jellyfish. At nine, he was reading Carpenter's book on microscopy. In his teens, he was sneaking physics books into his Latin classes. In school, however, he was considered a spectacular dullard. And at Harvard, almost his only claim to fame was that he once swallowed hashish and had his dreams ("I could distinctly feel myself a fox . . .") duly recorded in William James...
Died. Viscount Addison, 82, oldest of Britain's leading politicians; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Radnage, England. Starting out as a physician, he went to the House of Commons as a Liberal in 1910, later switched to Socialism, in 13 governments successively became Munitions Minister, Minister of Health, Minister of Agriculture and Dominion Secretary, and after he got his title, became Labor's leader in the House of Lords...
...Danbury physician, Frank T. Genovese, told of being called in by Dr. Gibson for consultation in June 1950. He visited Miss Ayres often, said Dr. Genovese, but he prescribed no medicine for her. Neither did he ask what Dr. Gibson was prescribing. Sometimes when Dr. Genovese called, the bedridden woman was alone in the house. Dr. Genovese wanted to take X rays and make laboratory tests, but Dr. Gibson said she refused to go to a hospital...