Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hotels or an ugly scandal can send hundreds of tourists off in a huff to St. Moritz or Davos. Hence the reluctance of Zermatt's townsmen to talk about the curious wave of illness that began popping up three months ago. They stolidly ignored word from a Zurich physician that a patient just back from skiing in Zermatt was down with typhoid fever. They also shrugged off a report that an Italian immigrant working near Zermatt had fallen ill with the same disease...
...psychiatrists and other physicians in general are solidly arrayed against non-medical application of such potent drugs. They report many cases of mental illness precipitated by their unwise, unprofessional use. Clinical psychologists, who are on the borderline of qualification to use the drugs, are themselves divided. The Los Angeles Society of Clinical Psychologists has gone on record resolving that "no psychologist shall collaborate with a physician in the use of any experimental drug, such as LSD, except for research purposes in a hospital or university setting...
...both poet and physician, each as a profession in itself, and each thanks to the other. He had mastered the knack of treating poems as patients and patients as poems, and both were the better for it. His life was in careful balance...
Last week, at 79, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage, at home in Rutherford, in his sleep. He had been in frail health since 1950, and his death, his wife said, "was a long time coming." He had a physician's strong resistance to sentimentalizing death, but his poet's resistance was stronger still. Death, to him, was the enemy of experience, more shameful than saddening, and the dead were zeros that "love cannot touch." Having long treated patients as poems, Williams once said farewell with a poem that, in all his rash toughness, he might well have...
...there is a kind of A.A. for smokers. Like A.A., its meetings have spiritual overtones. It is led by a barnstorming preacher of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and a physician. At the end of their five-day course, they claim, 75% of all signees give up smoking, and up to 40% are still off tobacco a year later...