Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who commit or attempt suicide? At one large university, the son of a small-town pharmacist tried to become a physician, as his father had urged. But he flunked chemistry and vomited while dissecting a frog. He wrote a note saying that he had dishonored himself, then shot himself. A highly creative coed at a large Eastern private school scored high marks in some classes, dismal grades in others. She was a loner, obviously unhappy, and she jumped from the 14th floor of the campus library. In her room, authorities found a novel she had completed. Professors said that...
...Korean Model. The 20-member bloc of officers elected as delegates was being courted by such civilians as Publisher-Physician Dang Van Sung, 51, who hopes to drive a wedge between Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and his uniformed delegates. "They want to be civilians," said Sung of the military Assemblymen. "That's why they ran." In the headquarters of the ruling directorate of generals, five separate constitutional drafts were circulating; and the generals themselves were busy choosing sides for the presidential power struggle that lies ahead once a constitution is written. Ky and his chief of state Thieu were...
...annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society, a novel, three-dimensional fluoroscopy machine was displayed by General Electric. A complex welter of mirrors, polarizing filters, lenses, an image intensifier and a two-cathode X-ray tube (see diagram), G.E.'s Stereo Fluoricon shows a patient to his physician as a green 3-D image, "like a skeleton with its organs hung inside." Other X-ray machines and sonar beams have produced similar 3-D effects, but previous processes were too cumbersome or time-consuming to be easily utilized. G.E.'s machine...
Such comments reflect the distance that still separates the doctor and the engineer. "What is needed," says Dr Joseph B. Boatman, chief of physiology and biophysics at Battelle Memorial Institute, "is better communication. The physician must learn to ask the right questions of the right people. Medical research must bring together many skills and many backgrounds. What we lack is a school to train medical research clinicians. The whole purpose of medical schools is to train physicians to treat patients and there is no room to train researchers. Medical school should stop making research a secondary interest...
...survive, Medicine must evolve new patterns to deepen its roots in science and broaden its scope of service to society. Natural selection is too slow a process to insure survival; careful planning must proceed on several fronts. A clear view of the many new roles expected of the physician should lead to an education which will prepare him for the diversity of services expected of him. This view must lead to a reconsideration of the curriculum in medical school and proceed with bold innovations in both premedical and postgraduate education...