Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was more good news for Johnson. That scar, his doctor reported last week, is in "excellent condition." Vice Admiral George Burkley, the White House physician, added that in every other respect as well, Lyndon Johnson's recovery is in the "normal range." Last week was the sixth since Johnson left the hospital after his gall-bladder operation. It marked the end of the period mentioned by his doctors as the time it would take the President to resume full "physical activity...
Life by Lottery. The survivors finally reached a prison camp at Fukuoka in Japan, where they were greeted by a captured U.S. Army surgeon, Walter Kostecki. Now physician-in-charge at Fort Myer, Va., Kostecki says that "there was no medical reason why Harold Johnson should have been alive." Down to 90 Ibs.-he weighs 170 today-he was wasting away with dysentery. Dr. Kostecki, who had obtained two dozen intravenous feeding kits, held a lottery to decide which of the dying arrivals would receive treatment; Johnson drew a winning number...
...Mark Novitch, assistant physician to the UHS, who headed the investigation, said, "My firm impression is that there are variabilities, but not gross inequities in the cost of drugs in and out of the Square." He based his opinion on raw data gathered last spring which he has submitted for statistical analysis. A conclusive report, he said, should be ready within the week...
...Crimean hospital, Alexander came across a dying army officer who closely resembled him, even down to a scar on the leg. When the soldier died, Alexander's physician allowed the body to decompose just enough to blur its features. Meanwhile Alexander took to his bed, ostensibly with malaria or typhoid. When the time was ripe, the corpse was brought up to the Emperor's room in a covered bathtub; Alexander was smuggled out the same way to a yacht belonging to the first Earl of Cathcart, former British Ambassador to Russia and a close friend of Alexander...
Patients often make it clear that they do not want to know the truth. Yet in a study of attitudes among the dying, Dr. Feifel found the patients eager to talk about the subject that was being so carefully avoided by physician, family and friends. Once the old liturgies asked God's protection from a sudden death; today it is expected that people hope to die suddenly. And they do. In automobiles and airplanes, through war or crime, death comes ever more abruptly, ever more violently. And after middle age, it comes suddenly through heart attack or stroke. There...