Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 pinpoint 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...
...Mileage." The son of a Pennsylvania coal miner, Morgan is a physician with a $45,000-a-year practice back in the mining community of Fredericktown, Pa., to which he commutes on weekends. "To me," says Morgan, "taking a foreign aid bill through is just like going to the operating room. Many critics say Morgan uses a bedside manner. Well, I make very few enemies in committee or on the floor. I use kindness, and I get a lot of mileage...
...When old Lord Tottingham visited his physician with various aches in his limbs, the wise doctor recognized the trouble instantly as Miller's syndrome, a psychosomatic ailment, and prescribed a placebo to keep the old boy happy. "You mean there's nothing really wrong with him?" asked a nurse when the patient had left. "Of course not," replied the doctor...
...death decisions, DeBakey will return to the medico-political battles that he never shuns. A progressive Democrat and an acquaintance of President Johnson, DeBakey favors the use of federal funds for medicine. "The Federal Govern ment," he says, "has already put a lot of money into medicine, and every physician in the United States is better off for it-better off than he ever was before...
...just as critical of his own profession. He regards as shameful the tendency to deny patients the relaxing and literally heart-warming effects of their accustomed drink. Equally shameful, he believes, is the average physician's refusal to use liquor as a medicine. It is, he asserts, not only the oldest of medicines but one of the most effective. It was the first and for long the only useful anesthetic. Alcohol is good in many cases of high blood pressure and heart disease, because it relieves the pain of angina and makes a low-salt diet more palatable. Because...