Word: physicians
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This is the contention of Frederick J. Stare, chairman of the Department of Nutrition in the School of Public Health, as he expressed it in a new booklet, "Your Physician Looks at Family Health...
...their less spectacular form, kidney diseases are among the most common causes of illness and death. Most patients recover, but each year in the U.S. 45,000 die of insufficient kidney function. Dr. E. Hugh Luckey, physician-in-chief at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, cited this somber statistic as introduction to a pair of hour-long seminars on renal diseases broadcast by New York's educational WNYC-TV Channel 31. Sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine, the programs gave general practitioners and internists the latest word on diagnosis and treatment-much...
...physician, using his long, specialized experience in reading ECGs, can interpret the squiggled paper from the nurse's Cardioview if an abnormality is suspected. The computer, with its electronic brain, interprets the impulse scale in a fraction of a second, and it does this superhuman job accurately enough to show instantly whether there is any ECG abnormality...
...purrs the teenager. The man smiles grimly: "I'm 39," he says. As hero of this little-league Italian comedy that pits age against youth, Ugo Tognazzi plays, a late-maturing young businessman who boasts that he can get by with only four hours' sleep, though his physician deflates him by insisting that he needs eight, plus a nap after lunch...
...challenge Professor Harris' assertion that the average physician's income has crept up to "a current national average of $25,000 or more" [June 12]. For my colleagues' sake I could wish it were true, but I wonder if the professor has mixed up gross income with net income. Physicians in private practice have to pay office secretaries, nurses, rent, etc., often up to as much as 40% of their gross income...