Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says. "But there is a limit to what we ought to do to prolong it." The marantologist, he suggests, would not only recognize these limits but help the public do so as well. The result-peace, comfort and relief for the medically hopeless-would benefit both patient and physician. "Marantologists would not always look on death as an enemy, but often as a friend," concludes Poe. "They would have their vision extend beyond life into eternity...
...duty of every physician to treat those who come to him for help. Is it also his responsibility to turn in those patients who are sought by law-enforcement authorities? The question is more than academic. At the FBI's request, two medical journals published under American Medical Association imprimatur have printed "wanted" notices soliciting doctors' help in catching a suspect. This odd procedure raises serious ethical questions about the physician's responsibility to his patient...
...many doctors fail to keep up with new medical developments, and to remedy this, authorities in some states are taking action. The Oregon Medical Association (2,400 members) was the first to make continued training a condition of membership. A physician must spend at least 50 hours a year attending professional meetings and courses or preparing and publishing research reports. As a result of this requirement, 17 members have recently resigned or been expelled, losing various benefits, though not the right to practice. A New Mexico law to take effect in November will jeopardize even that, requiring doctors to average...
Inside the wards, Dr. Tran Cong Tuong, dean of the Surgery Department, walked with me as I saw for myself the results of the air attack. The son of the vice-director had been wounded. A physician, Liu Ty Tung, of the Traditional Medicine Department, received a severe concussion and suffered a broken car drum. A patient sitting near her was killed instantly. Chun Ty Mai, 13, daughter of a woman physician in the hospital, also suffered a concussion and had one big toe blown off. Her father had already died...
Tkach and Nixon appear to have an excellent doctor-patient relationship. They met in 1953, when Tkach, serving as assistant to President Eisenhower's physician, treated Tricia and Julie for sore throats. He accompanied the then Vice President to Moscow in 1959 and on other foreign trips. In 1961, Tkach resumed his military practice, only to be called back to the White House by President-elect Nixon seven years later...