Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medications prescribed by Dr. MacKenna sound fine to me, but whatever happened to the treatment with the patient's own blood? When I had acne as a boy in Vienna, my physician used to give me a shot of an antistreptococcic agent every other day, and between days, injections with my own blood. After two months I was practically rid of the acne...
...harried family doctors keep on prescribing tranquilizers. Said Dr. Leonard Weil, president of the Dade County Academy of General Practice: "The physician knows that if he doesn't give them someone else will . . . Only a small number of people can get psychiatric help, so a lot of emotional problems are thrown back to the family physician; he turns to tranquilizers that he might not use if he had more time." In Beverly Hills a busy psychiatrist confessed that he sometimes pops down a tranquilizer himself to prepare for the nerve-wrenching drive home from the office. Said...
...trucker who was convicted of drunken driving on testimony that a blood sample taken from him after an accident tested .17% alcohol. The court decided that the defendant's rights had not been violated so long as the blood sample was removed "under the protective eye of a physician...
Common Colds & 'Copters With proper punctilio, the presidential physician, Major General Howard Snyder, diagnosed Ike's ailment as not a "cold" at all but a mild case of tracheitis, i.e., inflammation of the windpipe, accompanied by persistent coughing. Ike picked up his trouble, said Snyder, while standing for hours in the brisk and breezy weather of Inauguration Day last month reviewing the inaugural parade. Not even Georgia's warm sunshine had burned it off. As a precautionary measure, Ike slipped off to Walter Reed Army Hospital the day after his TV speech on Israel...
Playhouse 90 (Thurs. 9130 p.m., CBS). The Blackwell Story, with Joanne Dru as the first U.S. woman physician...