Word: physicians
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...months before his award check was cashed. Jerry's Home Improvement Co., Zilbert's purported employer, was nowhere to be found; its address turned out to be that of a vacant barber shop. In early August, with the discovery of other false claims, Zilbert's physician, his lawyer, three other doctors, another lawyer and 14 other people were indicted for defrauding the state of Ohio of a total of $65,000. It was only one of several cases to emerge in a mushrooming scandal involving Ohio's workmen's compensation system, which, with assets...
...first person to see a pattern in the outbreak of illness seems to have been Dr. Ernest Campbell, a physician in Bloomsburg, Pa., who noticed that three patients with the same symptoms had been to a convention together. He called health authorities to arrange for tests but was told that the state laboratory was closed for the weekend...
...York City health department. "The symptoms, the fact that this is obviously a common-source outbreak, the fact that there has been no secondary spread of the disease. All these point to ornithosis above all else, and ornithosis is very hard to isolate." An Allentown, Pa., physician, Dr. Gary Lattimer, tended to agree. Assuming that the disease fitted this diagnosis, he treated three of his patients with the antibiotic tetracycline, which combats a number of illnesses, and reported that all were improving...
...Revolution, there were 2.5 million people in colonial America. Virginian William Byrd wrote, "It was a Place free from those three great Scourges of Mankind -Priests, Lawyers, and Physicians." Divine aid was considered more important than that of the physician. Only through God's grace could one escape disease or survive its attack. In The Angel of Bethesda, the first general treatise on medicine written in the colonies, Cotton Mather advised in 1724, "Lett us look upon Sin as the Cause of sickness...
...there were 160 medical schools with 28,142 students and 5,747 graduates annually. Abraham Flexner, an educator, not a physician, was commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to study the situation. He recommended the closing or reorganization of all substandard proprietary schools. By 1930 there were only 76 schools with a total of 21,597 students and 4,565 graduates annually. Little significant expansion of medical schools occurred for the next 20 years, but the "Flexner revolution" helped make the U.S. the world leader in biomedical science and medical education. From 1901 through...