Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel.' Sitting on the ledge of a building is a tremendous effort at communication." Of immediate importance in improving communication is the education of medical men to recognize the symptoms of potential suicides; two-thirds of those who attempt suicide have visited a physician. There are various warning signs, including talk; the notion that those who talk about suicide will never really do anything about it is entirely false...
...others prime themselves with such elixirs as raw eggs, whisky with sugar, iodine in milk, quinine pills, or stiff injections of vitamin C. Also popular are small doses of strychnine, which, according to one doctor, "tunes the vocal cords like violin strings." Says Dr. Geraldo de Marco, house physician at Milan's La Scala Opera: "We give so many shots that occasionally we run out and just give injections of water. The singers never know the difference, and afterward they always say how wonderfully they sang...
...physician is "a man of mediocre intellect, trade-school mentality, limited interests and incomplete personality." He has trouble diagnosing a boil. Scalpel in hand, he needlessly whacks off the nearest tonsil; absentmindedly, he seals sponges, forceps, suture needles, thread, scissors and drainage tubes into surgical wounds. He takes pharmaceutical lessons from drug salesmen and writes illegible prescriptions that kill his patients. He soaks the sick, cheats on his income tax and, on his inviolable Wednesday afternoons at the country club, devotedly chases par while his patients perish unattended in hospitals, as often as not from falling...
...giving a blast for 80 movie types including Claudia Cardinale, in honor of Valenti, who is touring Europe for the first time as the new president of the Motion Picture Association of America. Gina and her husband of 17 years, Yugoslav-born Dr. Milko Skofic, a non-practicing physician long weary of being Mr. Lollo, had finally arranged for a legal separation. Eventually they will get a divorce, even though Gina might have to give up her citizenship in divorceless Italy...
...Confession." Simmons is convinced that U.S. consular officials dealt him an even worse blow three weeks later after Mexican newspapers headlined a "confession" by another man-a psychotic Texas physician who had been arrested near Múzquiz for running around naked while shooting up an Indian village with a .22 rifle. Not only did the doctor roughly answer Hilda's description, but on the day of the murder he had been seen carrying a .22 pistol only six miles from where the shooting occurred. According to newsmen and the Múzquiz police chief, the doctor repeatedly stated...