Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eager to please, Mondale not only supplied Carter with copies of his income tax returns for the past five years but also a report from his doctor describing his only ailment-a minor case of hypertension. (Carter referred the report to Kirbo's personal physician, who agreed that it did not indicate a serious problem...
Wednesday morning Ford underwent his semiannual physical examination, and White House Physician Dr. William Lukash pronounced him in "excellent health." Later, to celebrate her husband's 63rd birthday, Betty Ford took him to the posh French restaurant Sans Souci. The rare public lunch proved to be a huge headache for the Secret Service but a field day for reporters (four of them feasted at a nearby table). Ford downed two martinis and a chefs salad; his wife sipped gin-and-tonics and ate Dover sole. The tab came to $25.36, and Betty Ford picked...
...calls-and the responses to them -to keep the staff on its toes. He may also take other action; even his fellow doctors are not spared Rabkin's criticism. After he discovered that a patient had been left unattended in a corridor, he rebuked the physician responsible (without naming him) in his weekly "Dear Doctor" memo to the staff. Explains Rabkin: "A patient's rights brochure is not worth the paper it is printed on if it does not reflect an institutional commitment." At Beth Israel, whose bright new wing is attracting many patients, the commitment is apparently...
...Annals of Internal Medicine, many of whose physician subscribers derive considerable income from checkups, recently published a critical diagnosis of the routine examination. Among other things, it suggested that the periodic exam may be just one more instance of "a tendency of the health professions to oversell prevention ... and to overvalue the benefit of their care to patients." Acting on the advice of medical consultants, the Chicago board of education is scrapping annual chest X rays for all employees. Even leaders of the American Medical Association have joined the doubters. A.M.A. President-elect Dr. John Budd, a Cleveland general practitioner...
...papers for his commital, which were signed by a physician at the University Health Services, are the standard forms used for patients who "show psychotic symptoms on the outside," Tortora said...