Word: physicians
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LIKE too many other small American communities, rural Surgoinsville, Tenn., has no doctor. When the town's only physician died in 1966, there was no one to take his place; his modern clinic has been closed ever since, and the 5,000 people who live in and around the little northeastern Tennessee community were forced to drive 28 miles to visit the nearest doctor in a neighboring town. Several months ago, the Rev. Robert E. Button, 28, one of a group of citizens who had been searching for a new doctor, saw an advertisement in TIME placed...
...year-old woman in Huntsville, Ala., swallowed a large number of aspirins, plus some sleeping pills and tranquilizers. Her local doctor, knowing that she needed help fast, but unsure of the proper antidote, made one telephone call. A brief consultation with an expert on drugs gave the puzzled physician the simple answer. A quick stomach pumping brought the woman out of danger. Three months ago she might have died...
...that covered only four counties in Alabama, the project is now bringing the advice of medical specialists even to some of the most remote corners of the state. The idea was developed late last year by the Alabama Medical College dean, Dr. Clifton K. Meador, whose experience as a physician in Selma, Ala., had led him to believe that there were serious "defects in the communications between physicians and med ical centers." Meador decided to close that...
...LITTLE MAN FROM BROOKLYN, by St. Clair McKelway. The incredible life of Stanley Clifford Weyman, who cracked the upper crust by posing at various times as U.S. consul general to Algiers, a physician and a French naval officer...
...LITTLE MAN FROM BROOKLYN, by St. Clair McKelway. The incredible life of Stanley Clifford Weyman, who cracked the upper crust by posing at various times as U.S. Consul General to Algiers, a physician and a French naval officer...