Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biguanides, the Joslin Clinic's Dr. Leo P. Krall conceded (after trial in 244 patients) that they "are capricious unless the physician uses them with special understanding." But he insisted that DBI, given along with reduced doses of insulin, has helped some unstable diabetics to lead a more normal life than they could when they took insulin several times a day. Main trouble: there is a narrow margin of safety between the DBI dose needed to control the blood sugar level and the dose that may produce side effects, so treatment in severe cases should begin in a hospital...
...aspect of man's adaptation to his environment, and as his environment changes, so do his diseases-but they do not disappear. In Mirage of Health, published this week (Harper; $4), famed Microbiologist René Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (though no physician) applies laboratory logic to visions of a medical utopia...
Barber, a diabetic, had taken insulin at 10:30 a.m. on the morning of the day of the accident. Dr. John C. Wells, associate physician of the University Health Services, testified that at the time of the accident the insulin would have had its maximum action...
After that, there was a daily airlift of captured Africans: 249 were arrested and 136 deported, among them Nyasaland's only African lawyer and only African physician. Hour after hour the government press office, its walls anachronistically decorated with inviting travel posters, ground out fresh communiqués-a road block put up here, a prison stormed there, a European game warden and a forest ranger attacked elsewhere. Against the clubs, stones and pan gas of the Africans, the government had Bren guns, Sten guns, spotter planes-even Vampire jets-plus the services of the King's African...
...executives had sought a Silver Hill emotional inventory on their own initiative; since the plan was made formal, ten more have already signed up. Admissions are usually arranged through corporation heads and medical directors, never without a physician's referral. The subject's colleagues and family supply background data before his visit. He is expected to show up for Sunday dinner, stay until Saturday afternoon. In those six days he gets a thorough going-over by psychologists and psychiatrists, but no hint of psychoanalysis-there is not a couch in the place. The only strict rule: every subject...