Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news photographers flared for the first time inside St. Peter's Basilica. During his reign, he must surely have learned of the longstanding system under which the Vatican press corps hired-and even bribed-tipsters (usually laymen) on the papal staff. When, a few years ago, the papal physician peddled pictures of his patient down on the floor doing pushups, the Pope-with a grace few men could have mustered-forgave even this assault on the papal privacy.* But even the patient Pius would have been tried by some of the press relations that attended his death...
...thoughtful physician," Dr. Rising concludes, will not think of abandoning these useful (and often lifesaving) drugs, but he "will not lightly prescribe [them, and] will exert every effort to understand . . . the harmful effects that may result from their...
Family of Distinction Sir: The Dr. Jean Persons, a public-health physician in Alaska whom you refer to in MEDICINE of the Oct. 6 issue, is the daughter of the Rev. Frank Stanford Persons II. Her uncle, Wilton Burton Persons, is the man President Eisenhower tapped to be his new White House chief of staff (NATIONAL AFFAIRS, same issue...
Modern medicine has reversed the thinking of millenniums on the aging process and the aged. It holds that while aging is inevitable, many of the distressing changes so often seen with it can be palliated, minimized or actually averted. For this reason, Dr. Frederic Zeman, head physician at Manhattan's Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, insists on a semantic distinction, doggedly calls these changes "diseases...
Health insurance does not imply a restriction on the patient's right to choose his own physician, although some control might be needed to discourage any doctors from overcharging insured patients. As a start, it might prove most practical if state insurance covered any medical expenses which exceeded a certain percentage of a patient's income. Any such percentage could be determined according to an individual's income bracket and would allow for dependents...