Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert F. Loeb, M.D., Bard Professor of Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, said that the three most important qualificaios for a physician were 1) compassion and understanding, 2) being a cultured human being, and 3) a grasp of the medical sciences...
...shoe store, doctors supervised the fitting of four pairs of special shoes (children's size 9E), expected to last the growing boy four months. Four more pairs, size 9½, were supplied for the next four months. As the boy's feet grow, Saud's palace physician can order bigger sizes by mail. Doctors hope that braces and shoes, with massage and exercises, will eventually make the prince's leg close to normal...
...vast public. For the 19th century, which made tuberculosis both romantic and fashionable, was sure that somehow it was inextricably connected with thwarted love and melancholia. Early 20th century medicine, which sought to explain everything through germs, laughed at the Camille school of diagnosis. But in recent years, physicians have once again begun to see a connection between tuberculosis and emotional factors. Now a hardheaded Scottish physician, David Morris Kissen, practicing among working-class victims in the unromantic setting of Lanark, has reached a diagnosis of the emotional state which predisposes to tuberculosis. It results, he reports in the Scottish...
...Paul Dudley White, the famous heart specialist, and Dr. John F. Enders, Nobel Prize winner, were the two leading figures in the distinguished group of Massachusetts physician-researchers who spoke before the Legal Affairs Committee in favor of the bill...
...Mortem Post-Mortem. "Easing the passing of a dying person is not all that wicked," the doctor, according to police, had said at his arrest. "She wanted to die." But in making his case against the owlish physician, who sat quietly in dock making notes for his own lawyer on a pad, Prosecutor Melford Stevenson got permission from the presiding magistrate "to deal with the deaths of two other patients of Dr. Adams who died in circumstances which the Crown says exhibit similarity to the death of Mrs. Morrell." These two were wealthy Alfred John Hul-lett...