Word: physicians
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...diarrhea, low fever and malaise, to a need for more surgery. The course of ileitis is so variable that doctors cannot dogmatize about the outcome of an individual case. Explains Dr. Everett Duane Kiefer of Boston's famed Lahey Clinic: "There are few diseases which should leave the physician with a greater sense of humility...
Gradually a strange and consuming determination took hold of Mellon. His wife Gwen gulped when she heard it: sell the ranch, become a physician and follow in Schweitzer's footsteps. Larry Mellon had plenty of money, but both age and education were against him−he had left Princeton after his freshman year. Mellon wrote to the great Dr. Schweitzer himself, and back came eight pages of encouragement and advice...
...locate defects inside the heart, Physician David H. Lewis of Philadelphia and Engineer James R. Brown Jr. of the U.S. Naval Air Development Center at Johnsville, Pa. have devised a microphone (more precisely, a transducer) no bigger than a pinhead (.06 in. diameter). Slipped into the heart at the end of a catheter, it applies the principles of submarine detection to the detection of disease...
Milk of Magnesia. Dr. Howard McCrum Snyder, the President's 75-year-old personal physician, was sleeping in his Connecticut Avenue apartment when the bedside telephone jangled. Over the wire came the voice of Mamie Eisenhower: the President was turning and tossing with a stomachache. What should she do? Old Army Man Snyder was unworried; his patient had a record of stomach complaints. He recommended a small dose of milk of magnesia, turned off his bed light and went back to sleep...
When such a closure struck President Eisenhower early Friday morning, he felt pains in the lower quarter of his abdomen. At the first call from Mamie Eisen hower, Presidential Physician Howard McCrum Snyder, knowing his longtime patient's susceptibility to indigestion, prescribed milk of magnesia ; he figured hope fully that it could do no harm and might bring the upset to a quick end. But as Ike's discomfort became gradually worse, Snyder went to the White House to sit up the rest of the night with him. The President vomited repeatedly, and Dr. Snyder now knew that...