Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marriage Revealed. David Patrick Rusk, 20, University of California economics senior and eldest of the U.S. Secretary of State's three children; and Delcia Bence Spinosa, 20, dark-haired daughter of a wealthy Argentine rancher-physician and a 1957-58 exchange-student classmate of Rusk's at Scarsdale (N.Y.) High; in a civil ceremony July 12 in Buenos Aires, to be followed by Roman Catholic rites there...
...years the dangling stethoscope has been the symbol of the physician. But just how reliable a piece of equipment is it? Cardiologist Dale Groom at the Medical College of South Carolina has long suspected that many a faulty diagnosis comes from faulty equipment. To prove it, he ran a check on the 33 stethoscopes used by his Charleston colleagues at Medical College Hospital, found his suspicions confirmed. Two-thirds of the stethoscopes were defective. The doctors using them would be almost as well off with a rolled-up sheet of paper-which is just what the stethoscope was when first...
Died. Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 67, Parisian-born novelist-physician, a tortured ("I cashed in on my neuroses") iconoclast and virulent anti-Semite whose deafening, nightmarish and slang-ridden novels, Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan, set the salons aboil before his conviction (later rescinded) as a World War II collaborator with the Nazis; of a stroke; in Meudon, France...
Suicide as a way of ending the story of a life had been much on his mind. Hemingway's physician father, also ill with hypertension and diabetes, had died by his own hand in 1928. Indeed, Hemingway had brooded and passed judgment upon it in print. In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Robert Jordan thinks about his suicide-father, "that other one that misused the gun," and calls him a coward. Elsewhere, Hemingway suggested that there was nothing cowardly in suicide-if used to hasten what otherwise might be a slow and messy death. Some years ago, his mother...
...United Mine Workers of America, a massive operation in 26 states, financed entirely by a royalty of 40? on every ton of coal mined. It runs ten hospitals in three states, gives miners and their families little choice of physician. It has closed its panels against physicians and surgeons whom it accuses of doing unnecessary services and padding fees...