Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indianola, Miss., members of the Citizens Council have been buttonholing patients of Negro Physician Clinton Battle, have warned them that they will lose their jobs if they continue to consult him. Reason: Battle, the first Negro in Sunflower County to register and vote, had been urging other Negroes to follow suit. The council's campaign has been so successful that at the last election not a single Negro-including Dr. Battle-appeared at the polls...
...Holiness has asked for an egg," said the taut, nervous voice of Papal Physician Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi over the long-distance wire to Bologna. "What am I to do? How shall I tell him he can't have it?" The Pope's new doctor, Antonio Gasbarrini, was delighted. "Tell him he can have not only one egg, but two-and have them flipped with Marsala, if he agrees...
...question of colds and other upper respiratory infections brought Dr. Lawson to his final blast against the overuse of antibiotics. More than 90% of children's fevers and respiratory and gastrointestinal infections are caused by viruses, he declared, and antibiotics are of no use against viruses. "Yet many physicians cannot refrain from scattering antibiotics far and wide because 1) the family expects it, 2) it won't do any harm. 3) it might do some good, or 4) you can't tell which infection is viral and which bacterial . . . The pressure to 'do something is always...
...report to military surgeons meeting in Washington, D.C. . . . last week, Psychiatrists Lucio E. Gatto and Henry L. Dean reported on medical goldbrickers in military service (or "nestlers," as the doctors call them): "Many give such convincing accounts of vague, disabling aches, pains and discomforts,that the unsuspecting physician will find himself hospitalizing them . . . in search of obscure, undetermined, and even rare diseases." Drs. Gatto and Dean suggested establishing centers near Army camps to provide outpatient treatment for potential nestlers, which would "reduce the financial burden of the nation...
...voice, Msgr. Angelo Dell'Acqua, acting Papal Pro-Secretary of State, rushed through the ringing marble corridors of the Vatican to the tiny room on the third floor. He did what he could to ease the Holy Father's suffering; he had called the Pope's physician, Dr. Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi. Also to the Pope's bedside came his three nephews, Swiss Dr. Paul Niehans,* and his old friend, Msgr. Domenico Tardini...