Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the existing program a student has the attention of a doctor each morning. When the physician has finished his rounds the patient is left to the care of a squad of nurses who follow the doctor's instructions to the letter, but do no more. Regardless of how efficient this system may be, it has several disadvantages. A student who develops a sudden ache usually finds it impossible to get an unprescribed aspirin or other treatment. Since the doctor will not return until the following day, there is the added danger that a turn for the worse detectable only...
...support this system argue that it is not done for the extra money, but to encourage students to report their illnesses during the business hours of the Hygiene Department. But illness follows no schedule, and such penalties are unfair. By leaving the decision of when to call a physician in the hands of the head nurse, any charges for imagined ills could be largely eliminated. Stillman is far from a model infirmary, but adoption of these improvements now would help fill the gap until a new health center is built...
...commander of Kfar Saba is a mild-looking young man named David Tryfus, 29, the son of a German physician. He is responsible for the ten-mile strip of border running north and south between the Arab towns of Qalqiliya and Tulkarm. At night he called his patrol to attention, and pointed to a map marked with red lines that showed the infiltrator routes. "We ambush here tonight," he said...
...ranch manager carried her to his car and raced five miles into town. Her physician, Dr. Jerry Fairbanks, 31, found her near death upon arrival. A nurse and another doctor lent their thumbs in turn to close the wound while Dr. Fairbanks gave Mrs. Rogers both plasma and whole blood, telephoned Yakima for more blood, and arranged for an ambulance trip to Spokane. Relays of state troopers rushed the blood 110 miles from Yakima; then Dr. Fairbanks bundled his patient up for the equally long drive to Spokane. He kept his thumb on the artery...
...Sorts. Santiago newspapers, whooping up the story, dubbed the find "The Indian Princess" (it was later found to be a boy). They quoted experts who said the body must be put back in cold storage. A physician jumped in, asserting that the correct procedure was to put the body in the sun so that it could dry up. Dr. Fuenzalida replied curtly: "I know how to do it," and popped the cadaver into a box lined with black paper...