Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protests mounted over the Christos case, hapless Magistrate Rose announced: "I do not regret my decision. It was a painful one, but it was just." A few days later the magistrate suddenly fell ill and died. "An unfortunate coincidence," said his physician. So was the discovery that the day before he sentenced the Widow Christos to jail for her night sewing, Magistrate Rose had fined a man ?10 ($28) for indecently assaulting a six-year-old girl...
Thunder-throated Actress Tallulah Bankhead, 57, who entered a Manhattan hospital last fortnight for what her physician called "a general checkup," learned what ailed her. Diagnosis: four broken ribs, cracked in a household fall and easily mended...
...Physician Hawley offered this explanation: nowadays, nearly everybody has insurance to cover the basic cost of surgery, and every insured patient is a paying patient. At the Manhattan dinner where Hawley spoke, Dr. David M. Heyman got in a plug for systems such as the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, of which he is honorary board chairman. Under its group practice, said Dr. Heyman, doctors receive no extra fees for operations-so "there's no incentive for unnecessary surgery...
...Thoughtless prescription of blood transfusion is playing Russian roulette with bottles of blood instead of a revolver," wrote Dr. William H. Crosby Jr. of Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital. "While the odds are in the physician's favor that nothing will go wrong, the patient takes the risk." Doctors are familiar with such warnings; yet every week in the U.S. and Canada one or more patients die because what was meant to be a lifesaving transfusion turns out to be a death-dealing dose of incompatible blood (such as type A given to somebody with type...
...causes a hidden sensitization, preparing the ground for trouble with the next transfusion or the next pregnancy. So the overall risk is closer to 1 in 600, Dr. Moore concludes. And of patients who have such reactions, 15% to 50% will die, "depending upon the clinical acumen of the physician and the facilities available...