Word: physicians
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Larry Rink, of Centreville, Mich., who quit high school to work in a paper mill, was only 20 when his right leg had to be amputated because of bone cancer. In less than a year, the disease recurred with its usual malignancy. To Dr. Ray Houghton, an osteopathic physician of White Pigeon, it seemed that Rink's only chance lay in cross-transplants of cancer tissues with other patients-a bold technique under investigation at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo (TIME, March...
...agony on the Cross, Jesus "yielded up his spirit." How, precisely, did he die? Not even Luke, who according to tradition was a doctor, offers an explanation, so it has generally been assumed that death came from the cumulative effect of the agony-thirst, heat, shock, and exhaustion. French Physician Jacques Bréhant, 59, who has been pursuing the elusive medical mystery of the Crucifixion for nearly 30 years, makes a more specific diagnosis: Jesus died of suffocation...
President Banda found himself in control of that rarest of African commodities-a politically stable nation. And Banda is the man who keeps it that way. A natty, gnomelike former physician, Banda led his tiny (46,000 sq. mi.) country's fight for independence from the Central African Federation, became Prime Minister in 1964, and has since ruled the impoverished, landlocked nation with autocratic firmness. He jails critics at will, assumes sweeping powers to restrict the movements and statements of anyone in the country. Just to avoid confusion, Banda has even decreed that no Malawi businesses can have...
...nudist as anyone found naked before "persons of the opposite sex, not his husband or wife, at their solicitation or with their consent, for religious or health purposes." Construed literally, ruled the court, the law would penalize even "a female patient who undergoes an examination by a male physician...
...ethic of that ancient oath "by Apollo the Physician" is one that all doctors have sworn to and still swear by. Do they live up to it? Not always, is the grim conclusion of Harvard's Dr. Henry K. Beecher after a ten-year study of medical experiments recently performed on human subjects. Dr. Beecher has no quarrel with the physician who tries a new drug or a new operation for the benefit of a patient; he is concerned about experiments that are designed for the ultimate good of society in general but may well do harm...