Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston lawyer leaves his office early and goes home to bed. His rolled-up left sleeve discloses two plastic tubes permanently implanted in his forearm, one set in a vein, the other in an artery. Their outside ends are connected so that blood flows freely through them. A physician from Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital takes the lawyer's blood pressure. In his bedroom, near the bathroom, is a waist-high tank of stainless steel equipped with an electric motor and pump, an array of tubes, and a hose that is hooked onto the bathroom faucet...
Time for Homework. Dr. John P. Merrill, head of the Brigham's cardiorenal section, says in the A.M.A. Journal that he sees no need for a physician to be in constant attendance, provided he is within reach by telephone. He thinks wives can be trained to take the nurse's place, and in two cases involving Brigham patients, they have already begun...
...customary embarassing cliches. For instance, when the girl lets it be known that she's pregnant, her mother crinkles her sad but wise eyes and says, "You love him very much, don't you?" instead of calling the police. And the abortionist turns out to be a prosperous-looking physician instead of the usual touchless crone with a bent coat-hanger...
...MIMI PAUL, 21, daughter of a Washington physician and a fashion designer, trained in Washington and abroad before joining the New York City Ballet in 1960. She is cast in the classical mold, a perfectly proportioned ballerina of ravishing grace and serene lyricism. Her expressive arms, arching back, and regal stage presence lend grandeur to a role, as exemplified by her Adagio in Symphony...
...impersonal lines may wind through the corridors as patients wait their turn for X ray or blood test, but once that turn comes, the individual is all-important. Each patient, no matter whether he arrived on his own or was sent by his doctor, is assigned a single "personal physician" out of the 120 internists at the clinic. The internist sees his patient briefly at first; then a medical history is taken by a "fellow"-a young M.D. who has finished his internship and is serving a residency at Mayo...