Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctors for serious illness. Because of its high cost, these people are probably ready to accept the diagnosis proferred without quibbling about whether the doctor is an old family friend. Besides, the passing intimacy of the office can exist under any system because it basically depends upon the individual physician...
...ouster stick. In 1960, University of Illinois President David D. Henry fired Biologist Leo F. Koch after Koch wrote a letter to the campus newspaper backing premarital sex among students. Said Koch: "With modern contraceptives and medical advice readily available at the nearest drugstore, or at least a family physician, there is no valid reason why sexual intercourse should not be condoned among those sufficiently mature to engage in it without social consequences and without violating their own codes of morality and ethics...
...Named for the French physician who described
...George W. Thorn, the Brigham's physician in chief, and Surgeon Carl W. Walter modified Kolff's early model, which he had built in secret during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands; and for patients whose kidney failure was only temporary, the contraption was a lifesaver. But it could not keep alive those whose kidneys had failed permanently. In 1951, in a desperate effort to save these patients, Brigham surgeons decided to go ahead and transplant kidneys without waiting for the mysteries of immunity to be dispelled. But all those "unprotected"' transplants eventually failed...
...Brigham from Northboro, Mass., and begged Dr. John P. Merrill to put Richard Herrick, 24, back on the artificial kidney because both of his own kidneys were failing catastrophically. As he was about to hang up, the Northboro doctor added: "By the way, this patient has an identical twin." Physician Merrill immediately