Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many lawsuits that result in the award of damages for malpractice, the fault clearly lies with the physician or the hospital. In others, doctors have unfairly been found guilty of malpractice when patients developed unexpected complications after conscientious, sound treatment. Whatever the case, the number of suits-and the amounts awarded -have been increasing astronomically...
Nolen, who practices surgery in Luchfield, Minn. (pop. 5,262), admits that psychic cures can be impressive. He watched as people in a Minneapolis auditorium flocked onstage to claim that they had been cured by Faith Healer Kathryn Kuhlman, who is neither an ordained minister nor a physician but heads a Pittsburgh-based foundation that bears her name. Followup, however, showed that Kuhlman's cures were something less than miraculous. Sufferers from migraine headaches, which are often caused by emotional problems, did feel relief after the healing service. So did people with bursitis, a painful but transient joint inflammation...
Within an hour, the arresting officers told the attending physician at a county hospital that Young had made his way out of the back of the patrol car (which had no door or window handles). In trying to escape, they said, Young had run into a fence and broken his neck. But Marshall County Coroner Osborne Bell found a bullet wound in Young's left armpit, and no evidence of a broken neck. When he confronted the police with his findings, they literally bolted from the hospital...
...subject of abortion is a great social and emotion-packed issue almost equally dividing our people, and equally so our physician population...
...policy position of the American Medical Association is that if an abortion is to be done, it should be carried out by a duly licensed physician and surgeon in an accredited hospital or facility during the first trimester of pregnancy, after consultation has been obtained in accordance with good standards of medical practice in that state. Consent must be obtained from the patient and/or parent...