Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer handmaidens to the Male Chauvinist Physician but independent practitioners and innovators in health care...
Balthazar's good works have not gone unnoticed. A few months ago, his alma mater, Loyola University School of Medicine, gave him its esteemed Stritch Medal (previous winners include Heart Transplanter Christiaan Barnard and Astronaut-Physician Joseph Kerwin). The citation called him "a beacon for others in his profession and a promise of hope." Also, a film has been made about his storefront clinic by a group at Southern Illinois University...
That was the physician's way of telling the public that it had brought on itself the latest California doctors' slowdown by suing for excessive malpractice awards. Since the start of the new year, four-fifths of the 11,000 physicians in the Los Angeles area had refused to treat patients, except in the most serious emergencies. In some hospitals, wards were closed and the services of such specialists as orthopedists and neurosurgeons all but unavailable...
Typical of the new generation of country doctors recruited by H.S.R.I. is Dr. Minthorne D. Norton, 38, a graduate of the University of Miami's medical school who quit a family practice in Kentucky to run a clinic in Battle Mountain, Nev. Helped by a physician's assistant, a licensed practical nurse and three clerks, Norton sees about 200 patients a week, including many travelers (he is the only doctor along 120 miles of Interstate 80). In difficult cases, he can call upon advice from specialists at the University of Utah. He also has available the services...
...actor on the mystery soap Edge of Night was asked by a physician to stop killing off characters. One of the doctor's patients, a 94-year-old woman, was suffering agony over the deaths of so many people whom she felt she knew...