Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mayo for shock treatments, his law office issued a statement that he was at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for gastric tests. Eagleton admitted last week that the story was "a ploy, because when you need rest you need rest from the press." Eagleton's brother Mark, a physician, told newsmen after the rumors about Tom had started that Tom had really never left St. Louis. Last week Mark finally confessed: "The truth is important, but for us now the most important thing is what is going to hurt or help my brother...
...convinced that the value of periodic examinations is provable is Dr. Ernest L. Wynder, the first physician to produce firm evidence that cigarette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer, who is now a crusader for preventive medicine. As a director of the New York-based American Health Foundation, Wynder has persuaded six corporations* to finance the Health Maintenance Center, which opened early this month in mid-Manhattan. It is the last word not only in multiphasic testing but also in automation...
...even hour for a man or 1¼ hours for a woman (because of additional breast and genital examinations), a physician at the end of the line has a printout of the full report. The center physician will send the report to the examinee's personal doctor or company medical department or provide him with a list of private physicians. If an examinee has a problem with smoking, nutrition (meaning, in most cases, overweight), high blood pressure or physical fitness, he can be referred immediately to one of four "intervention clinics" maintained on the floor below by the American...
...Sept. 21, 1939. Taking the hand of the physician at his bedside, Sigmund Freud said, "My dear Schur, you certainly remember our first talk. You promised me then not to forsake me when my time comes. Now it is nothing but torture and makes no sense any more." Schur reassured his patient that he had not forgotten. "When he was again in agony, I gave him a hypodermic of two centigrams of morphine. He soon felt relief and fell into a peaceful sleep. I repeated this dose after about twelve hours. He lapsed into a coma and did not wake...
Thus the death of the founder of psychoanalysis is recalled by his physician Max Schur in a new book, Freud: Living and Dying (International Universities Press; $20), completed just before Schur's own death in 1969. Addressed to both laymen and professionals, the book is at the same time a portrait of Freud's last 16 years, when he was waging a losing battle with cancer, and a study of his views on death as they developed throughout his life...