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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well George A Small '84, who in tends to got to medical school, says there's so much implicit emphasis [in medical school] on going to class and working in a classroom, impersonally, that a med student might get a skewed impression of what it means to be a physician Any chance to work with people through counseling, or perhaps a religious organization, is a way to get a more realistic view of people...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: Birth Control At Harvard: Spreading The Word | 12/1/1983 | See Source »

...American medical dissidents who have long opposed the indiscriminate use of mastectomies for breast-cancer patients. At a recent conference in Venice, Italy, sponsored by Bristol-Myers, he and a number of other U.S. doctors reported on their successes with more limited treatment. According to Dr. Samuel Hellman, physician in chief of New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, even patients with tumors as large as two inches in diameter may require nothing more than a lumpectomy followed by radiation. Though this approach involves removing even less tissue than Veronesi's method does, the results with some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Easing Women's Constant Fear | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

...alternatives. To remedy this, California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Hawaii and Wisconsin have passed laws that specifically require doctors to inform patients of options in treatment before a final decision is made. Even so, reports Hellman, the various approaches are generally offered with "varying degrees of enthusiasm, depending on the physician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Easing Women's Constant Fear | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

...grabber: "Futuristic way of living arrives in South Florida... Bank at midnight from your living room." When Physician Alfred Damus of Coral Gables, Fla., ran across the announcement one day last week in the morning paper, his imagination went to work. With a system called Viewtron, the doctor and his wife Leatrice could monitor their bank accounts, pay bills, keep track of their stock portfolio and perform other financial tasks simply by tapping the buttons on a notebook-size keyboard. Later that morning his wife spent $600 for the Viewtron machine being advertised at a nearby Burdines department store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armchair Banking and Investing | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...starting point for the dramatic research is the oldest vaccine on earth: a smallpox prophylactic made from a live cowpox virus called vaccinia. It was developed two centuries ago by Edward Jenner, a British physician who had observed that milkmaids exposed to cowpox were immune to smallpox. Because vaccinia is an unusually large virus and because it has been familiar to scientists for so long, it was an ideal subject for genetic tinkering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Made-to-Order Vaccines | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

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