Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protestant-oriented Harvard Divinity School's recent appointment of British Historian Christopher Dawson to a new chair in Roman Catholic studies. The department denied Dawson a visa-"for a strictly medical reason," which it refused to disclose. The reason: pulmonary tuberculosis, diagnosed by a U.S. Public Health physician who examined Dawson, 68, in London. Dawson's British physicians disagree with the diagnosis, have given him a clean bill of health, which he still hopes may change the State Department's mind...
...these cases were followed through the mountainous files of the Veterans Administration. The Dorn-VA technique: whenever a claim was filed to collect insurance, investigators double-checked both the primary cause of death and other contributory diseases with the physician who signed the death certificate, and (if possible) with the results of post-mortem examinations. Where the Hammond-Horn study had been attacked by the tobacco industry as statistically unsound because of the investigators' bias, the Dorn-VA investigation could not be assailed on the same ground, although even before formal publication it was criticized by industry spokesmen...
Theoretically, every doctor has a physician in attendance 24 hours a day, i.e., by long-standing tradition, any doctor will treat any other doctor free of charge. But Dr. Charles E. McArthur of Olympia, Wash. noted that standards of physicians' medical care (except in university hospitals and a few private clinics) are among the nation's lowest-because of neglect. One big reason for such neglect, suggested Dr. McArthur, chairman of the A.M.A.'s section on general practice, is that smalltown G.P.s have limited access to specialists. And because each one feels that he "lives...
Gundersen, 61, of LaCrosse, Wis., a practicing physician since...
...cell was built with the help of Manhattan Designer Will Burtin, longtime art consultant for Upjohn and amateur scientist. The exhibit (cost: about $75,000) was already in demand for future showings. Its complex biochemistry, representing the consensus of several leading cytologists, was too deep for most visiting physicians and probably understood only by other cytologists. But its ingenuity was vastly admired. One elderly physician stood in awe of the huge cell for a while, then said in a dry Missouri twang: "It'll never work...