Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Physicians have long used medical jargon to impress gullible laymen. As far back as the 13th century, the medieval physician Arnold of Villanova urged colleagues to seek refuge behind impressive-sounding language when they could not explain a patient's ailment. "Say that he has an obstruction of the liver," Arnold wrote, "and particularly use the word obstruction because [patients] do not understand what it means." Such deceptions may still occasionally be practiced on patients, but this does not account for the impenetrable prose in contemporary medical journals, which are read mostly by doctors...
...unravel that alphabet soup, Author-Physician Michael Crichton (The Great Train Robbery, The Andromeda Strain) recently looked over some back issues of the New England Journal of Medicine. Crichton, who wrote novels even during his days at Harvard Medical School (class of 1969), was appalled by what he read. The style, he reported in the Journal, was "as dense, impressive and forbidding as possible." Examples...
...cardiac clinics at Grady Memorial Hospital, notes a change since she got her M.D. 21 years ago: "Women are now referred to as 'Dr. Smith' or 'Dr. Jones'?not 'that woman doctor,' as I was." Because of sheer ability, Wenger is in great demand as a physician and consultant round the world. In one week recently, she jetted to Israel to deliver a paper to the International Society of Cardiologists; then she popped over to Geneva for a meeting of the World Health Organization; next she flew to Dallas for a conference of the American Heart Association, of which...
...Sholem Postel, associate director chief of Medicine and Physician to UHS, said he could give no concrete reason for the dramatic increase...
Kubrick is a self-taught man with an autodidact's passion for facts and the process of gathering them. Son of a Bronx physician, he was an indifferent high school student. He experimented endlessly with cameras and at 17 was hired by Look as a staff photographer. He learned something about people and a lot about photography, traveling the country shooting pictures for 4% years. At 21, he made his first short subject, three years later his first fictional feature-very low budget. He also audited Columbia University courses conducted by the likes of Lionel Trilling and Mark...