Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CROSSING, by Jean Reverzy (256 pp.; Pantheon; $3.50). The French eye is quick to see beauty, even quicker to see the fatal corruption that lies beneath. This disquieting first novel by a French physician has such a theme: it tells of Palabaud, who has spent sunlit years in Tahiti and has now come home to the bourgeois grey of France to die of an enormously swollen liver...
Farnsworth, in his Lowell lecture series, took pains to emphasize the general principle of medicine of which psychiatry is a branch, "Nothing that the patient divulges during the course of a medical interview may be used by the physician without the patient's permission, unless the welfare of others is directly at stake...
...blonde and attractive, who was fired from her job as health officer of three counties for lunching privately with the Negro state midwifery supervisor (TiME, Oct. 8). The commissioners had given no official reason for her dismissal, had paid no heed to protests that ranged upward from her physician husband to Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins. Now she rose quietly in the tense room to request one. "I wish," she began, "you would now discuss this in my presence." When the commissioners were silent, Dr. Coggins put a second question: "Could it be that you think what...
...there anyone else," the chairman asked, "that wants to be heard?" One more did-Editor T. C. Merchant Jr. of the Madison Enterprise-Recorder. Said he, reading carefully from a slip of paper: "A physician greater than Deborah Coggins was once criticized for eating with tax collectors and sinners. I am not attempting to make any irreverent comparisons, but I sincerely believe that if you fire this girl today for the reason you have in mind, you will be doing an evil and unjust act, the memory of which will follow you to your graves...
...installations ... no more operative shock, no more anguish, no more pain." This revolution will be wrought, Dr. Ody believes, by improved internal medication - "All the victories which have been the pride of brilliant surgeons will be forgotten on the day when a medical genius, a laboratory man, chemist or physician discovers the substance which, in the form of a capsule, will capture the sources of energy that will bring recovery within hours." ¶Among children who have received the full course of three spaced shots of the Salk polio vaccine, not one death from the disease has been reported this...