Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contributing Editor John McPhee, who wrote the story, was able to approach it with the detachment of a Princeton man who got through college before the whole twanging subject loomed so large. He cared more about sports. His father, an M.D. on the Princeton University faculty, is physician to the U.S. Olympics teams. At Princeton, McPhee himself roomed with "the greatest football player" in the U.S. that year, Dick Kazmaier, and when TIME put Kazmaier on the cover in 1951, McPhee, as one of his roommates, was subjected to the kind of TIME interviewing he has later inflicted...
...haven't a zest for living." Cabot said, ''you weren't brought up right." He had enough zest for a dozen men, inherited from his father, Samuel Cabot, a physician (Harvard 1836). "About 79 years ago," said Godfrey Cabot one day in 1950, "my father told me that man is going to fly, and when he flies he will fly farther and faster than the birds. My father was a very farseeing man." Godfrey Cabot was bitten by the flying bug shortly after the Wright brothers lifted off a hill at Kitty Hawk. After the outbreak...
...story, "Charles", is written in the first person from the point of view of a thirteen-year-old boy. The boy's grandfather, a kindly old physician type also named Charles Clifford, has just died, and the boy and his family are staying with the widowed grandmother. Because there are so many people in the late doctor's house, young Charles has to stay his grandfather's old room. The grandmother, nicknamed Migi, is ill in the next room...
Some men, laudably conscious of their parents' efforts on their behalf, at first have vigorous but narrow views of what it will take, say, to become a physician. The Harvard Medical School has refused promising and qualified men after three years, with the suggestion that they do in a fourth year what they will later have small chance to do. To hard-pressed parents and at first to the men themselves this advice seems harsh, but the question at stake is the range of a man's potential view of medicine, and to see some of these initially narrow...
...while the bill was working its way to the White House, FDA drew up a set of new regulations (under its old-law powers) to give it tighter control of drug testing in man. Not yet formally approved and still subject to detailed amendment, these proposals require that a physician who wants to try a still unapproved drug on his patients must register with FDA, submit evidence of his qualifications, and keep full and accurate records...