Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAST: The Vice President of the U.S. and his personal physician. The Vice President is undergoing a massage after a strenuous day on the campaign trail...
...such conversation has been precisely recorded, but the dialogue is close to the truth. For if anyone can talk to Hubert Humphrey, it is Dr. Edgar Berman, 53, an ex-surgeon from Baltimore who is not only the candidate's physician without pay but also his close friend, campaign adviser and omnipresent critic. If a Humphrey administration were to have a Colonel House, a Harry Hopkins-or even a Svengali-some jealous campaign aides suggest it would be Edgar Berman...
...repeat performance for the photographers, Gorey finished in front once more. Loyally, Dr. Edgar Berman, Humphrey's personal physician, declared the Vice President the winner. "This is the first time he ever got the better of TIME Magazine," Berman insisted. But Gorey is sticking to his claim of victory, and he has the picture to prove...
American doctors write about 900 million prescriptions every year, and the vast majority of physicians are supremely confident that what they write is right. But is it? Last week an expert task force told the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare that too many doctors know far too little about drugs. While few of the doctors "seem inclined to voice any question of their competency in this field," the study group concluded, "lack of knowledge and sophistication in the proper use of drugs is perhaps the greatest deficiency of the average physician today...
...patient at the right time, in the right amounts, and with due consideration of relative costs." The failure of many doctors to achieve this ideal, said the group, traces back to medical schools, most of which give only one course in drugs and their use. Later, in practice, the physician gets most of his information on drugs from manufacturers' promotional material...