Word: physicians
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...October 1963, a young rural couple took their identical twin boys to a physician to be circumcised. During the first operation, performed with an electric cauterizing needle, a surge of current burned off the baby's penis. Desperate for a way to cope with this tragedy, the parents took the advice of sex experts: "Bring the baby up as a girl." The experiment has apparently succeeded. Aided by plastic surgery and reared as a daughter, the once normal baby boy has grown into a nine-year-old child who is psychologically, at least, a girl...
Biologist Comfort, a physician, barely touches on the negative aspects of group sex, though he does acknowledge that it could "devalue relationships." Not all behavior experts are totally opposed to group sex, but few take such a sanguine view as Comfort. Many believe that participants are often emotionally disturbed, immature men and women whose sexual activities provide distraction but no solution to basic problems. Chicago Psychoanalyst Ner Littner feels that couples who swing are incapable of intimate relationships even with each other, and use wife-swapping "as a safety valve that keeps intimacy at a level each can tolerate." Anthropologist...
Since 1969, fundamentalists have been encouraged by Dr. John Ford, a San Diego physician and vice president of the state board of education, who has campaigned for mention of the biblical version of creation in all science textbooks. Evolution, said Ford, "should not be accepted as fact without alluding to creationism, which is felt to be sound by many scientists." That year, the board went along, issuing revised guidelines that urged the inclusion of both "theories." The guidelines were optional, however, and no major publisher adopted them. This year, after Dr. Ford raised the issue again, a state textbook commission...
...Arthur Simon, a Beverly Hills, Calif., physician who specializes in the problems of the overweight, worries that any further Government crackdowns on amphetamines, which are used as appetite suppressors, may curb his practice (see following story...
...this reason, many doctors eschew eccentric diets and insist that their patients learn instead to eat differently for the rest of their lives. Dr. Robert Atkins, a modishly dressed Manhattan physician who operates out of a plush East Side office, believes that overweight is the result of the body's inability to metabolize carbohydrates properly. He allows his patients such dietary don'ts as mayonnaise, heavy cream, butter, steaks and lobster, but limits them to a maximum of 40 grams of carbohydrates daily. Dr. Charles Roland of the Mayo Clinic says that "despite Atkins' sweeping generalizations...