Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were also recently informed that a physician studying the side effects of the pill had prescribed a sugar placebo in lieu of the contraceptive to Chicano patients. These women were to be the "controls" in his experiment. To their surprise the women soon found themselves burdened with unwanted pregnancies...
...injunction to solidarity within the medical profession, and the physician's privilege of expecting no criticism from his peers must be discarded. And the Medical School should feel compelled to organize that effort...
...science of immunology dates back considerably farther than the year 1796. In the year A.D. 1000 the Chinese physician Yo-Meishan successfully inoculated the emperor's grandson with dried crusts of smallpox to render him immune from a serious attack. This practice of inoculation was introduced into England in 1721 by Lady Mary Wortley Montague, wife of the British Ambassador at Constantinople, who had had her son inoculated in Turkey...
...have to go into the hospital for a minor pelvic operation. She was afraid of surgery, nervous about the two children she would have to leave at home and concerned about the cost of her hospitalization. Instead of having her admitted the evening before surgery, as is customary, her physician asked her to report to Mercy General Hospital on the day of the operation. Once there, she was examined, given a sedative and wheeled into surgery. An hour later, she was in a recovery room. By late afternoon, after paying a hospitalization fee of only $28, she was home, elated...
...accessibility to students. After the death of Thomas Pickering '74 in a Sever Hall economics class last term, he helped set up new procedures which permit a quicker response to campus medical emergencies. In future emergencies, no University policeman will be needed to evaluate the situation before a physician is dispatched...