Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old Kunta Kinte is sold to a Spotsylvania County, Va., planter for $850 and renamed Toby. But Kunta does not tame easily. Following his fourth escape attempt, half his right foot is cut off by professional slave catchers. He eventually becomes the buggy driver for a physician. In 1789 Kunta marries a slave woman named Bell, who bears their daughter Kizzy. At 15, Kizzy is sold to a North Carolina planter who promptly rapes...
...Lincoln had many skills, but the New England Journal of Medicine recalls one that contemporary doctors (and their lawyers) may especially appreciate. In 1856, while he was practicing law in the Springfield, Ill., area, the future President was asked by two physician friends to defend them in a malpractice suit brought by an elderly man whom they had treated for a leg fracture. Though the break eventually knitted, the limb was slightly shorter than before. Briefed by the doctors on the difference age makes in the brittleness and healing of bone, Lincoln dramatically demonstrated the point in court with broken...
Arnold W. Malcolm, a physician with a Harvard radiation therapy team that treats cancer patients, gradually gave up smoking cigarettes for a pipe. "I stopped because of the loss of money, time, and then, of course, my lungs," he says...
When 1,200 medical researchers assembled at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week for the Sixth International Congress of the Transplantation Society, some of the loudest applause was given not to a physician but to a philosophy professor from Indianapolis. In 1959 the man, John Riteris, now in his early 40s, was stricken by severe kidney disease. Faced with the prospect of imminent death-or dismal years on a kidney machine-he agreed to what was then still a highly experimental treatment: replacement of his dying kidneys with one donated by his twin brother. Now, 17 years later...
...case of younger, totally symptom-free women, says Dr. Diane Fink, NCI's director of cancer control and rehabilitation, "the whole question will have to be looked at on an individual basis by the woman and her physician...