Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army. Duvalier has reason to worry. Haiti's per capita income is about $70 a year, one of the lowest in the hemisphere; unemployment averages 60%, illiteracy runs 90%, and life expectancy is only 32.6 years. When he campaigned for the presidency in 1957, Duvalier, a onetime backwoods physician who ministered to the poor, promised to change everything. Instead, he slapped on stiff new taxes and tolls, siphoned off graft to his cronies. To hold down the opposition, Duvalier set up a plainclothes gestapo of 5,000 men, called Tonton Macoute, or bogeymen, and in 1960 added a militia...
...name is there such a great difference between a physician and a surgeon?" cried the great 13th century physician Gilbertus Anglicus. And after seven centuries, his plea has been answered. Ever since medical science and surgery began keeping house together, they have inherited one bonanza after another from rich uncles to whom they did not know they were related: nuclear physics, polymer chemistry, rheology (flow of liquids), gas dynamics, cybernetics, electron microscopy. Out of a rich harvest of intelligence from the physical and biological sciences, surgeons have learned how to use heart-lung machines, artificial kidneys, X-ray cameras...
...control system are forbidden, the University may decide the floor is useless and let the undergraduates turn it into a students union. Below the tenth floor the noise is not so noticeable--the conditioning system exerts a more insidious influence over the occupants. When a staff physician wanted a glazier to cut an openable window in one of the fixed panes in his fifth floor office, the building superintendent warned the doctor that even such a minor operation would cause thermostatic neurosis throughout the Mt. Auburn Street arm of the system...
...Leave-Taking. Earlier that evening, Charlene had sent Marina out to the corner drugstore to get a new bottle of sleeping pills which her physician had prescribed. As the program began, Charlene rose from her bed, went to the bathroom. She returned to lie down on the bed while Marina sat near by. The youngster watched the show to the end, saw Gregory Peck, looking just like Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, make a touching little acceptance speech. When Marina looked at her stepmother, she realized that something was wrong. But it was too late. Charlene had swallowed...
...unit in Augusta, and there are centers with ten to a dozen beds in Macon, Columbus and Albany. But because the facilities are still so limited, the Georgia clinics have strict eligibility rules. To get in, a patient must have the backing of a psychiatrist and another physician; he must be seeking help voluntarily; he cannot be currently addicted to drugs or alcohol; and the admitting psychiatrist must be convinced that his illness is likely to be arrested within a month...