Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press coverage for President Nixon's trip to China. Colonel Chester Ward, however, inspected Peking Hospital, checking out such matters as anesthesiology equipment and the supply of A-positive fresh blood, the President's type. On returning to Washington, Dr. Ward reported to his boss, White House Physician Walter Tkach, and gave the hospital good marks. The exercise was not academic; if Richard Nixon should need hospital care in China, he will get it in Peking Hospital's VIP wing...
...subjective understanding of himself and the world around him flags... The primary purpose of medical education--that is, to understand disease and to be able to comprehend and manage the problems of sick people from the perspective of biological science--has been fulfilled. But the broader issues of the physician's (as well as the patient's) place and problems in the world at large has been neglected...
...know, there is no technical term for the fear some directors have of opening scenes, but Jonathan Miller has the most noteworthy case of it around today. The English physician turned thespian has once again axed the opening scene of a Shakespearean production, plunging right into the middle of the action without preface. This year's Oxford-Cambridge Shakespeare Company offering, Julius Caesar, like last year's Hamlet, is a stripped-down version, with several scenes, excessive staging, and lavish costuming all done away with...
...kind of atmosphere to which Plimpton was born. He comes from the Massachusetts community of Plimptonville, named for his family, went to the Harvard Medical School and, shortly after World War II service as an Army doctor, joined the faculty of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has remained in academic life ever since. "Medicine and education are the same thing," he says. "A good physician is a good teacher...
...There's an awful lot of dead space, as opposed to usable space," Wacker explained. He said he would like each physician to have two examining rooms, because physicians at present waste time while patients are undressing and dressing...