Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. Gina Lollobrigida, 40, Italy's ever beautiful, always busy (Hotel Paradiso) movie queen; and Milko Skofic, 48, the Yugoslav-born physician she married 19 years ago; by mutual consent after a legal separation of 18 months; in Vienna. Since La Lollo retains Italian citizenship, she is still Signora Skofic back home...
...Chicago, a mistaken diagnosis in an emergency room led to the death of a 15-year-old girl last November. Sent to Cook County Hospital with a physician's note that read "Poss. acute appendicitis," the girl, mistakenly diagnosed as having VD, was given a penicillin shot and instructed to seek help at a clinic. She died of gangrenous appendicitis within 24 hours...
...around the Center have never even been into central Boston, though it's just a trolley ride away. Poverty also has been linked to disease. Federal statistics show that for a person under 45 with an income of $10,000 or more the average number of visits to a physician is 5.0 per year. When the income level drops to under $3,000 visits drop to 3.2 per year. Even with free medical programs this discrepancy remains. In England after fifteen years experience with the National Health Service, it's the higher income groups that make better...
...Viet Nam is afflicted with iatrogenic disease. This is a physician-induced condition, and arises when an inappropriate treatment, given perhaps for a misdiagnosed illness, is continued and even stubbornly escalated. Unless the error is appreciated, the treatment stopped and the therapeutic direction shifted, the patient ultimately dies. A physician can be sued for malpractice. Can Washington...
Asked whether he would observe the proposed moratorium, Barnard answered with an unhesitating "No, I would not." If other surgeons wished to, he suggested, that was their business. He insisted that he was guided by his own conscience, based on principles as old as the Hippocratic oath-that the physician must do everything in his power to save life, to restore health, and at the very least to alleviate suffering. Barnard conceded that in the case of Louis Washkansky he did not save life. But "in the case of Dr. Philip Blaiberg, I can say unhesitatingly that we have alleviated...