Word: physicians
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Underlying the drastic change at FDA was an argument over policy. For two years, the agency's top medical man was the head of the Bureau of Medicine, Dr. Joseph F. Sadusk Jr., 56, a seasoned physician with a knack for getting along with other physicians. But Goddard himself is a physician, and last week he declared: "Dr. Sadusk and I are at opposite poles in philosophy. He feels that the practicing physician is best equipped to make decisions regarding the use of a drug. I feel that the judgment can be better made by a small group...
...Levine was the second American physician to diagnose coronary thrombosis, which he described in his book. Clinical Heart Disease. The disease became widely known through his early clinical' teaching. Dr. Levine also helped diagnose pernicious anemia...
...innovator in the treatment of coronary thrombosis patients. He substituted arm-chair recuperation for bed rest. He was one of the early users of the mechanical--electro-cardiograph to study heart patients, but he impressed upon his students the value of simple bedside methods of examination. He believed a physician should use the cardiogram to supplement his stethoscope...
...bill would permit pharmacists to dispense contraceptive devices prescribed by a physician. It would also allow welfare agencies to disseminate information on birth control...
Learning to Think. All over the U.S., medical education is suffering from growing pains. The U.S. needs to produce 11,000 new doctors a year by 1975* to maintain the present, barely adequate ratio of one practicing physician to every 1,000 people. Existing schools turned out only 7,400 graduates last year; enlargement of classes, and at least two dozen new schools, should reach the desired goal by the late 1970s. But the problem of quality will remain. Rising living standards and a growing sophistication in health matters are creating a clamorous demand for the best .in health care...