Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disturbed" ward of a mental hospital, Dwight Anderson was, in his own words, "a 50-year-old derelict." In the words of his attending physician, he looked like "a disheveled man of past 60, with a bad heart and an incurable mental disorder." There seemed small hope 18 years ago of saving the little that was left to save. But Dwight Anderson's alcoholism was treated as an illness, rather than a crime, and he recovered...
...place. Laboratory data, they say, "are frequently surrounded by an aura of authority, without heed to the fact that the data are collected by fallible human beings who are capable of committing errors of technique, or who may misinterpret the most precise evidence . . . Even these data cannot release the physician from the necessity of careful observation and study of the patient...
...wounds are most peculiar," reported a Protestant physician. "Those on the hands and feet are square. On the backs of the hands and on the insteps they are dark and slightly hard. On the palms and the soles they are somewhat smaller and rather reddish in color, and are covered with a sort of transparent tissue. The wound in the left side is deep, and shaped like a long, narrow diamond. On the head under the hairline there are numerous small wounds, mostly circular in shape. On the back there are several crosswise reddish marks, rather like lash marks...
...swear by Apollo the physician and by Aesculapius, Hygeia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses . . ." Beginning with these words, budding doctors for centuries have solemnly taken the ponderous Hippocratic oath-upon graduation. Modern physicians still pledge themselves to "keep [this oath] according to my ability and my judgment...
...energetic, wiry young physician just out of medical school, Rolla Eugene Dyer started in to practice in Marlin, Texas. His career as family doctor lasted six weeks. "I went in with an old physician who turned over all his night work and out-of-town calls to me," he explains, "and I lost 18 pounds in six weeks. I decided not to practice medicine...