Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...robustness of his health was established last week by a two-day, head-to-toe physical examination conducted by some two dozen of Walter Reed's top doctors and technicians and the President's personal physician, Major General Howard McC. Snyder. At its end, in a startlingly frank and detailed report that more than anything else illustrated Dwight Eisenhower's insistence on the people's right to know, they gave the world almost an organ-by-organ look at what they had found (see next page...
...them from an imaginary hell. It is a business almost indistinguishable from that of a seller of snake-oil for rheumatism. As for a lawyer, he is simply, under our cash-register civilization, one who teaches scoundrels how to commit their swindles without too much risk. As for a physician, he is one who spends his whole life trying to prolong the lives of persons whose deaths, in nine cases out of ten, would be a public benefit. The case of the pedagogue is even worse. Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply...
...facultymen had reason for outrage. Though one physician on the medical-dental school staff gets a top salary of $14,376, the average pay for a full professor outside the professional schools is $8,469. Coach Royal's 27-year-old assistant, three years after his service as a quarterback at the University of California, gets about $7,500. The salary of 47-year-old Pulitzer Prize Poet Theodore Roethke, professor of English...
Students planning to travel abroad this summer have been urged to come to the Hygiene Department for vaccinations. Dr. John C. Wells, assistant physician, stressed the importance of tetanus immunization, observing that when the disease is contracted, it is fatal in more than one-third of the cases...
...made his rounds last week, Physician l'Haridon decided that the case of lie de Sein was more than a 20th century doctor could cure. Said he: "I won't leave until another doctor arrives. But I can't stay here." To the Senans, unhealthy but untaxed. the impending departure of their sixth doctor in six months was no crisis. "So he goes," shrugged one islander. "Another one will come along...