Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Returning to Pampanga, he joined a boyhood friend, handsome Rogelio de la Rosa, in writing, producing and acting in Tagalog operettas patterned after the classic Spanish zarzuelas. Macapagal married his friend's sister (she died during the war, and he is now married to handsome Evangelina Macaraeg, a physician). As for De la Rosa, he went on to star in Tagalog films, becoming known as the "Clark Gable of the Philippines"; in the recent campaign, he also ran as an independent for the presidency, but withdrew to back Macapagal ten days before the election...
...National Institutes of Health last year, Government scientists spent $30 million to test no fewer than 50,000 potential cancer-fighting drugs. That measures the size of the job in achieving the chemotherapist's dream: an effective cure for the major forms of the disease. Last week the physician who treated President Eisenhower's ileitis, Dr. Isidor S. Ravdin of the University of Pennsylvania, pulled together and appraised the results...
...rays were used. As liver function progressively declined, many medical measures supported the patient. If some of these treatments had been withheld, said Dr. Karnofsky, the patient would have died within weeks or days. Successively, they kept him alive for ten months. Dr. Karnofsky asked, "When should the physician stop treating this patient?" and answered: "I believe he must carry on until the issue is taken out of his hands...
Some pacemaker experimenters have invented devices to let patients speed up their hearts, by radio signals to the instruments, when exertion demands a greater blood supply. But Dr. Chardack prefers to give the physician this control. In the latest models of the Buffalo pacemaker, there is a second protuberance just underneath the skin. By simply jabbing a triangular needle into this, the physician can adjust the rate...
Hollywood's Dr. Kildare, Raymond Massey falls far shy of Lionel Barrymore as the wise old teaching physician, Dr. Gillespie; and Intern Kildare, as played by Richard Chamberlain, suggests nothing so much as an oversized white rabbit with a stethoscope instead of a watch...