Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most intolerable about this situation is the case with which it could be changed. The Administration should simply give the Senior Tutors and the Dean of Freshmen the discretionary authority to excuse a student from an examination for which he was unable to prepare adequately because of illness. A physician's signature would be required, and the Senior Tutor would simply countersign the excuse if convinced that the period of illness was crucial to preparation for the exam. Putting the burden of proof on the student would minimize abuse of the rule...
...physician for the high school football team in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1961, Dr. Scott W. Skinner fretted about the fact that many of the hard-working but unbookish kids he knew probably would have a tough time getting into a college. A mediocre student himself at Muhlenberg, Skinner was convinced that many local youngsters would do all right if a school would just give them a chance. Impulsively he dashed off a letter to a man he had never met but had always considered "a hero of mine and a unique person in history" - Dwight Eisenhower. Skinner asked...
...there are problems of adjustment to this kind of medical care for students, there are difficulties for the doctors as well. It is difficult to pin-point the reasons a physician might have for choosing college health service over a generally more lucrative practice. Appointments to the staff are made in a similar manner to Faculty appointments; there are physicians, associate physicians, and assistant physicians. Most conduct private practices on the outside, within limits set by the Corporation. It has been suggested that one reason these doctors have chosen this form of practice is that they would be unhappy with...
Most hospitals have committees of three to seven physicians to pass on staff members' recommendations for therapeutic abortions. But the boards have vastly different standards. Says Dr. Rosen: "The definitions of valid reason for abortion vary from physician to physician, from hospital to hospital, and from day to day within the same hospital. The board of one hospital may refuse to accept a recommendation, yet the same application may be almost immediately submitted to the board of an adjacent hospital-with, at times, almost the same staff-and be approved...
Only recently has the art of survival been studied scientifically. In 1952, to prove that properly trained men could endure the most extreme conditions, French Physician Alain Bombard set out from France to cross the Atlantic in a 15-ft. dinghy-without once tapping his sealed crate of emergency supplies. He caught dolphins and birds and ate them raw, endured three rainless weeks by drinking juices he pressed from fish, dew scraped up from the deck, and a daily pint of sea water. In the course of his 65-day voyage, Bombard lost 55 Ibs., suffered from diarrhea, a rash...