Word: physicians
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...Named after an apocryphal 17th century English court physician, Dr. Condom, who supposedly invented them after Charles II became alarmed by the number of his illegitimate children...
...federal law that restricts the number of foreign medical school graduates who can train in U.S. hospitals may "clobber" many smaller hospitals that depend on the graduates to fill many of their resident physician posts, the director of Harvard's main teaching hospital said yesterday...
...witness, a physician on the staff of the Tufts New England Medical Center, was called to testify in from of the grand jury which arraigned the defendants on December 18. No other witnesses have yet been presented for the prosecution...
...These interruptions are so brief, only a few seconds or so, that apnea victims are usually totally unaware of them and at a loss to explain the morning-after blahs. When these patients take their complaint to a doctor, they usually get no help. The problem is that the physician sees the patient in the daytime and has no way of knowing the underlying cause of the malaise. Often the most he can do is to prescribe some sleeping pills, which generally prove totally ineffectual and can be dangerous. Now, as a result of the emergence of a whole...
Died. Walter A. Griffin, 102, believed to have been the oldest practicing physician in the U.S. until his retirement last January; in Sharon, Mass. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Griffin began his practice in Sharon in 1901, making house calls by horse and buggy (his fee: $1.50). The doctor was a firm believer in the curative powers of fresh air and exercise. During the 1918 influenza epidemic. Griffin advised 400 stricken patients to open their windows, take fever-reducing medicine and get out of bed as quickly as possible. His widow recalls that only one died...