Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, use codes to alert prospective employers that the applicant is a Negro. The most unyielding barriers to the Negro's advancement are put up not by corporations but by the craft unions, which are so biased that it is easier for a Negro to become a physician or junior manager than an electrician or a plumber. A recent Labor Department survey showed that in Baltimore there were no Negro apprentices among the steam fitters, sheet-metal workers or plumbers; in Newark, none among the stonemasons, structural ironworkers or steam fitters; in Pittsburgh, none among the operating engineers, painters...
...gain strength from going out to see the people without going through middlemen." Pursuing the issue, he told about "Uncle Ezra," who was once advised by a doctor to give up alcohol in order to improve his hearing. Asked some time later if he had followed the physician's advice, Ezra said no, explaining: "I like what I drink so much better than what I hear." As for himself, declared L.B.J., "I like what I see and what I hear so much better than what I read...
...commission's prescription: a new medical specialty composed of "primary physicians"-so called because they would have first and continuing contact with the patient. Their training, said Dr. Millis, who is a physicist, not a physician, would involve abolition of the present system that calls for medical graduates to serve an internship of a year or more before going into practice. Future primary physicians, like candidates for all other medical specialties, would have to go into a three-year residency program immediately after graduation...
...Boston last weekend to consider its own report on "the core content" of what it calls "family" rather than "primary" medicine. The academy's leaders urged its members to "divorce themselves from the present and think in terms of the future," when the general practitioner turned family physician will be "a specialist in terms of the function he performs, not a specialist who treats only certain diseases or parts of the human body." The new family physician, said the academy, will see "illness and disease not only as biologic phenomena but as a possible outgrowth of emotional and environmental...
...Applicable" Surgery. To give the future family physician that breadth, the academy proposes that his residency training include some psychiatry as well as surgery, pediatrics, gynecology, obstetrics and geriatrics. Whether the F.P. practices alone or in a partnership or in a group must be his decision, but the academy insists that he be allowed to perform "applicable" surgery -meaning major operations in remote areas, but only minor procedures such as tonsillectomies and routine repairs where specialists are at hand...