Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move only up or down. The accepted treatment for most patients with badly damaged ankles has been to fuse the bones, an operation that locks the ankle and radically reduces mobility. Now there is additional hope for patients whose ankles might otherwise have to be immobilized. A California physician has improved on earlier models by designing an artificial ankle joint that closely duplicates the action of the original...
...were overwhelmed by their reception. Some Vietnamese refugees have been greeted in the U.S. with open hostility. Pham, Tran and their families were welcomed warmly, and with good reason. Sutherland, which is 20 miles from the nearest hospital, has been without a doctor since the town's lone physician quit three years ago. When its citizens learned that Pham, 40, and Tran, 37, who are both physicians, were willing to settle there, they went out of their way to make them feel at home...
...score of doctor-short communities in Nebraska besides Sutherland have recruited Vietnamese physicians, who are unpacking their bags in rural towns with names like Ponca, Weeping Water and Loup City. The Federal Government plans to settle some Vietnamese general practitioners on Indian reservations. American physicians have begun heeding an appeal by the American Medical Association to take on refugees as assistants. One Chapel Hill, N.C., physician hired Saigon Pediatrician Nhieu Phan Van sight unseen...
...Physician to the President
...Levin was parodying the often incompletely quoted observation of the 2nd century physician Galen: Triste est omne animal post coitum, praeter mulierem gallumque (Every animal is sad after intercourse, except the human female and the rooster...