Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Monstrous, painful, agonizing, a bottomless abyss of malice, deceit, fraud and greed," said Novelist Taylor Caldwell (Dear and Glorious Physician) of her 72 years on earth. She hoped there was no such thing as reincarnation, she told Occultologist Jess Steam (Edgar Cayce-The Sleeping Prophet), so she wouldn't have to go all through it again. Just to see if it hadn't happened once or twice before, though, they agreed to have her hypnotized. According to Stearn, who has just published a book about the phenomenon (The Search for a Soul), Miss Caldwell began recalling no less...
...money to buy the minimum of necessary equipment, opens his own office and starts a general practice. He treats as many patients as he can in his "clinic" and holds on to them as long as possible. If he puts a seriously ill patient into a general hospital, the physician almost invariably loses all contact with him-and all income from the case. Of the country's 6,800 general hospitals, only about 50 allow a G.P. to obtain staff privileges and retain charge of his patients...
...stubbornness of Truman's fight for survival at age 88 reflected to no small degree his strong constitution and will. As his personal physician, Dr. Wallace Graham, put it after his patient had been hospitalized for two weeks: "President Truman is showing remarkable strength and tenacious physiological reactions, which are a reflection of his attitudes toward life." But a second factor was also important. For so illustrious a patient, Kansas City's Research Hospital and Medical Center was certain to try every conceivable medical stratagem and device in the hope of pulling him through...
Ultracritical. As Truman's physician since his White House days, Surgeon Graham was forewarned of how this last illness might manifest itself. When he was under exceptional stress as President, Truman had developed noisy breathing (technically, "rales") which, Graham recalls, he seemed able to control by sheer will power. Over the years the rales recurred occasionally. About two years ago, Truman pointed to his head and told Graham: "I feel as though I have a little hot wire up here." When he had that feeling, the ex-President lost some of his famed alertness. Also, he said: "My eyeballs...
...insurance companies have already decided that for their purposes the ancient Chinese medical art is a legitimate procedure. Chicago-based Continental Assurance and Continental Casualty companies have given their aye to the needle by announcing that they will pay for acupuncture when it is administered by a licensed physician in accordance with law. Needle treatment by unlicensed practitioners-the kind given in some Chinatown dispensaries-would not be covered. The insurance companies have no idea what their decision will cost them in claims, but they do not expect to be overwhelmed. The few doctors in the U.S. currently wielding needles...