Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retired physician, wily, wiry Sir Milton, 65, has his work cut out for him. For all Sierra Leone's wealth in diamonds, some 85% of the population is illiterate, and per capita income is a meager $56 a year. Eight of ten Sierra Leoneans eke out a living on the land, but the nation must still import foodstuffs. "We will need help to develop our natural resources," says Sir Milton, adding pointedly, "and we would like to look first to our old friends." Firmly pro-Western, Margai has already made Sierra Leone the twelfth member of the Commonwealth. Conspicuously...
Coronary Warning? The basic model measures head-to-foot and foot-to-head thrusts. A second recording instrument can be added for the sideways thrusts of the blood stream. The recorder has a spare channel, so that if the patient has electrocardiograph leads hooked up the physician can read the ballistocardiogram along with an electrocardiogram...
Kennedy has been using the high, cane-backed rocker since 1955, after an operation for an old back injury. It was recommended by Dr. Janet Travell, who has since become Kennedy's personal White House physician. When questioned about the rocker's presence in the White House, Dr. Travell explained that it "provides gentle, constant exercise and helps prevent muscular fatigue."' She added that "a really good rocker is hard to find...
...patient should know how to take care of herself and obey doctor's orders, it is Manhattan's handsome, blonde Carolyn Diehl. She graduated first in her class ('50) at Cornell University Medical College and married a classmate who is a research physician. As a doctor for personnel at New York Hospital-Cornell, she spends a lot of time telling nurses and student nurses when to stay in bed. But last week Dr. Diehl was dragging around after almost a month of futile attempts to cure herself of an unidentified virus...
...Diehl a stuffy head and runny nose. She went back to work-imprudently-and then went back on tetracycline. It took another week for her to feel human again. Other victims who tried to shoulder a full work load too soon got into more serious trouble. One Manhattan physician developed a double viral pneumonia, with a fever of 104, and coughed up blood...