Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back from Laos to a Manhattan hos pital came Jungle Physician Thomas Dooley, 33, with an apparent recurrence in his spine of the cancer that had originally attacked him in the chest...
...face-to-face negotiation. A policy, he says, is "a galaxy of utterly complicated factors," not something that suddenly pops out of somebody's head. As for face-to-face encounters between world statesmen: "Summit diplomacy is to be approached with the wariness with which a prudent physician prescribes a habit-forming drug." He thinks that Presidents should stay away from summits, leave negotiating to the Secretary of State-and that the Secretary should leave it, as much as possible, to ambassadors...
...couple of hundred miles away in the Sierra Escambray, Dr. Manuel Fajardo, 29, Castro's close friend and personal physician, who was also commander of the local militia, intercepted two boys heading into hills that still hide some 300 oppositionists. Dr. Fajardo opened fire and was shot dead in the fight. Fidel Castro gave Fajardo the revolutionary version of a Chicago-style funeral, and bitterly blamed "the bandits of the Pentagon." Meanwhile, in Peking, "Che" Guevara got for Cuba's bare-larder economy the biggest foreign loan Red China ever made-$60 million for five years...
...equipped, trained, and immediately available rescue squad. The University Health Services did all that I believe could be expected of them as is demonstrated by the facts contained in the communication from Dr. Farnsworth which you printed December ninth. I am sure that, as Dr. Farnsworth asserts, the University physicians are "conscientious, thoughtful men and women." Be that as it may, they are not equipped to handle outside emergency cases with the speed and efficiency necessary. Dr. Farnsworth stated that the physician on duty spent five minutes assembling the appropriate emergency equipment. This is five minutes too long...
...Sandquist which you headed "Stillman Negligence," I wish to report that at 1:25 p.m. on December 4, the nurse in charge at Stillman received a call from the Harvard operator, saying that a man was having a heart attack in the Yard in front of Widener Library. The physician on duty left the infirmary at 1:30 p.m. having assembled appropriate emergency equipment, including a portable oxygen supply. He went in his own car to the site as quickly as it was possible for him to do so, but the Rescue Squad from the Cambridge Fire Department, located approximately...