Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still a question how far such principles can be extended to young, normal brains. Educators following the doctrine of Italian Physician Maria Montessori hold that children can do higher mathematics by the age of eight if they are encouraged to work to the limits of what they believe their own capacities...
Although the research scientist does important and challenging work, Wood argued that the practicing physician assumes the vital obligation of bringing the benefits of scientific progress to his patients. The doctor thus becomes "involved in human suffering," he said...
...Disease and insanity were the black angels on guard at my cradle," wrote Norway's greatest painter, Edvard Munch, recalling his tormented, sickly childhood. His mother died when he was four, and his physician father became a kind of fanatic, "with periods of religious anxiety which could reach the borders of insanity as he paced back and forth in his room praying to God. When he punished us, he could be almost insane in his violence." The black angels hovered over Munch (pronounced Moonk) to his death in 1944 -and they helped inspire some of the world...
...Russians have named seven Americans, one Briton and two Russians as major figures in the espionage ring, which was accused of "wholesale and retail'' trade in Russian engineering and scientific secrets. Top operative, according to Pravda, was the U.S. embassy's Russian-speaking physician. Air Force Captain Alexis Davison, 31, who was "openheartedly received as a true colleague'' by Soviet doctors. It was Davison, said the Russians, who was so preoccupied by the lamppost. The charcoal circle was a signal that information was ready to be picked up at 5-6 Pushkin Street by another...
...crises in affairs of the heart are more dreaded by physician, surgeon and patient alike than ventricular fibrillation -in which the heart's built-in electrical timing system fails and its lower chambers flutter futilely. Instead of beating purposefully and pumping blood to the whole body, they twitch ineffectively and pump nothing. There is no heartbeat. Doctors have tried to reverse the rapidly fatal process with a variety of electronic gadgets, but until recently no defibrillator has been able to do the job consistently. Now, some daring and resourceful doctors have become so sure they can restore a twitching...