Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...physician knows the dangers of drug antagonism, but is not always aware of all the medications that a patient may be taking, especially those bought without prescription. The patient knows what he is taking, but is rarely aware of the dangers. But there is someone in a position to know both the drugs being taken and the harm that wrong combinations can cause: the pharmacist. By keeping a medication profile of each steady customer and referring to it each time he fills that customer's prescriptions or sells him over-the-counter drugs, he can prevent the possibility...
Says Ronald May, pharmacist of a mid-Manhattan drugstore who has accumulated more than 3,000 individual profiles in five months: "We don't decide anything, but when we get a new prescription we advise the physician if ill effects are possible. Then he decides...
According to its manufacturers, methaqualone is a dependable and effective sleeping pill. Blurbs in the standard Physicians' Desk Reference attest to its "sedative and hypnotic" effects and its ability to induce prompt sleep, but warn that the drug may also produce dependency. The warning is appropriate. Though the drug may be safe if it is taken as prescribed by a physician, increasing numbers of Americans-especially on campuses and in ghettos-are obtaining the drug illegally and taking it indiscriminately. Methaqualone is rapidly becoming one of the most popular -and dangerous-drugs of abuse in the U.S. The Government...
...Garden City, Mich., a teacher persuaded a father to get a physician to prescribe Ritalin to calm his restless six-year-old daughter Joanie. The drug made her so withdrawn that she would sometimes sit for hours doing nothing. "One day I got panicky," her father said. "I had just said her name softly, and she started sobbing uncontrollably." A battery of tests disclosed that Joanie was perfectly healthy. What she needed was drill in basic reading, not drugs...
...including Paul Dudley White. All for naught; though the irregularity did not recur for months at a time, it inevitably came back. Then, in 1970, it again went away. In fact, a whole year passed without an episode. Finally, Slayton and Dr. Charles Berry, then the astronauts' chief physician, felt sufficiently encouraged to begin a series of complex cardiological tests, including the insertion of two tiny probes into Slayton's heart by specialists at the Mayo Clinic...