Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul Hawley, the American College of Surgeons has been urging county medical societies to crack down on ghost surgery and fee-splitting. Last week the San Diego society did so. It slapped a one-year suspension on Physician Egbert Morris Hayes of Palm City and Surgeon Wesley Walters of Chula Vista. This would not keep them from practicing, but barred them from leading hospitals in the country...
...House Ways & Means Committee last week came the Administration's bill to extend social security to 10 million U.S. citizens not now covered, e.g., lawyers and farmers. Before the committee approved the bill, it cut out a provision that would have included physicians. This pleased the American Medical Association, which had been strongly opposed to social security for physicians (although dentists are covered by the bill). Despite the physician-removing operation, the bill was a surprising proposal to come before the House from the hand of New York's hard-shelled Dan Reed, who is anything but social...
Attic Images. This week an Englishwoman of 40 has done it, and done it in her first book. An English Year is the work of Nan Fairbrother, the mother of two boys, 11 and 12, wife of London Physician William McKenzie. It would be easy to say that her book is not about anything much, and in a way that would be right. During the war she spent three years on a farm in Buckinghamshire, while her husband was overseas with the R.A.F. From the attic of the 16th century house she could see London, 40 miles away, being destroyed...
Their complaints: in most countries a physician makes five to nine times as much as a manual worker, but in Israel he is lucky if he makes half as much again. Many a hospital cook with a big family takes home a fatter pay envelope than the chief of the medical staff (380 Israeli pounds, or $292, after 25 years' service...
...taken place at the school level. Out of 25 communities investigated for the report, only Cairo, 111. experienced any major disorders. There, "crosses were burned, shots were fired into the homes of two local Negro leaders, and a charge of dynamite was exploded outside the home of a Negro physician." Nevertheless, by the end of the first semester 17 Negro children were attending white schools, and by 1953 the number had jumped...