Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors generally obey the injunction, "Physician, heal thyself." A.M.A. statisticians found that among 204,450 M.D.s followed for three years, there were 6% fewer deaths than in the general population. Despite physicians' exposure to infectious diseases, their death rates from influenza, pneumonia and tuberculosis were about half the national average. They had 7% fewer deaths from cancer, but 35% more from diabetes, and after 60, slightly more from heart disease...
Into the Fire. Unlike his three peers, Rank was no physician but an earnest young engineering student who was attracted into Freud's orbit in 1905 as pupil, later as secretary of the psychoanalytic inner circle. He served Freud faithfully for 20 years, finally broke away, denouncing Freud's "therapeutic nihilism." Rank's rebellion took him through many stages. In one he attached overwhelming importance to birth trauma as a source of neurotic difficulties. In another he blasted Freud's emphasis on the unconscious, called for a "psychology of the conscious." Immortality-at which Freud scoffed...
...failing health. Mindszenty was now treated somewhat better, occasionally was allowed a bottle of wine. But his condition grew worse. "I was ready to die . . . but I decided again that I would pull all my strength together because I did not want to please them by dying." His prison physician ("A religious man, a good Protestant who did his best") diagnosed TB, insisted on "good...
...impressive show of a man tightly controlled. Day after day, he sat composed in the House of Commons while criticisms beat about his head. Whenever he rose to answer the baiting, he projected a conviction that he was sure he was right. Sir Horace Evans, who is also physician to the Queen, urged him repeatedly to take a few days off, but Eden stubbornly drove himself on, taking more and more of the Suez work load himself, sweeping aside any suggestion that he should delegate more work to other Cabinet members. But his way had failed, and the penalties...
...team physician's prerogatives of early diagnosis and treatment must not be usurped by coach or trainer, lest a minor injury become aggravated by continued play, causing a long period of disability," he said...