Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young can a doctor be? Ira Weiss, M.D., 23, is roughly two years younger than the next youngest physician at Boston's famed Massachusetts General Hospital. It doesn't bother Weiss that all his fellow interns have two more calendar years of medical school behind them. "I feel I'm among peers," he says matter-of-factly. So, apparently, do many of the almost 70 other young M.D.s who graduated this year from three U.S. medical campuses that have reduced the normal medical curriculum by two years...
...Wilbur is well known for his contributions to medical practice. Long associated with the Mayo Clinic and Stanford's School of Medicine, he is rated one of the top internists in Northern California, has been president of the American Gastroenterological Association and of the American College of Physicians. He has also exerted a notably moderating influence on doctors' attitudes in his state as editor of California Medicine since 1946. A lifetime Republican, like his father and physician son,* he is described by those who know him best as "slightly left of center" in medical-policy matters. Largely because...
Ironically, the man whom Wilbur will replace next year, and who was installed as the A.M.A.'s president last week, is one of the association's most conservative members. Dr. Milford O. Rouse, 64, a Dallas gastroenterologist, is personal physician to Oilman H. L. Hunt, a former director of Hunt's far-right Life Line Foundation, and a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, an ultra-conservative political-action group. Unremittingly hostile to Government involvement in health care, Dr. Rouse still refuses to treat patients who insist on being billed through a Medicare agency...
...like his physician nephew Richard, who advises Governor Ronald Reagan on medical affairs...
Died. Dr. Charles Armstrong, 80, an Ohio-born research physician for the National Institute of Health who, in 1939, cultured a strain of human polio virus that could paralyze mice, thus giving scientists a low-cost laboratory animal, a breakthrough that inaugurated 16 years of intense research, climaxing in development of the Salk vaccine; of uremia; in Chevy Chase...