Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take issue with your premise that medical societies' officers may wield power of life or death over the average patient by deciding whether his personal physician or surgeon can admit patients to the best local hospitals and treat them there...
...medical society wanted to keep staff membership of the Jefferson Davis Hospital open to all practicing physicians. The medical school wanted to staff it mainly with research-minded faculty members. Dr. Leader needled the medical society and used strong words. They contented themselves with censuring him. Who succeeded in excluding the patient's personal physician from treating him in the Jefferson Davis Hospital...
Nature Does Its Best. No physician has yet had a good word to say for the headache and muscle pains of grippe or flu, so mild, painkilling drugs win ready approval. Trouble is that the commonest of these are aspirin and related salicylates -and these also drop the body temperature. Therefore even they may do harm as well as good...
Scorpions Too Small. Hollywood's Righter probably owes his vocation to a Philadelphia physician who in 1937 told him he had six months to live (Righter now says he had a "back ailment"). Then a pressagent for the Philadelphia Civic Opera, he moved to Hollywood. Reading about the zodiac, he soon saw that although Broadway plays were being scheduled by astrological advice, and Wall Street might be half paralyzed without readings from the stars, Hollywood could be El Dorado as a place to cast horoscopes...
FICTION 1 . Hawaii, Michener ( 1 )* Advise and Consent, Drury (2) 3. The Devil's Advocate, West (4) 4. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (3) 5. Poor No More, Ruark (6) 6. Exodus, Uris (9) 7. The Darkness and the Dawn, Costain (5) 8. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (8) 9. The War Lover, Hersey (7) 10. Fuel for the Flame, Waugh (10) NONFICTION 1. Act One, Hart (1) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3. May This House Be Safe from Tigers...