Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vortex of soaring interest rates. A Detroit magazine editor, for example, now sends his savings across the border to invest in the Canadian Bank of Nova Scotia, where six-month certificates yield 17.5% and up, or 2% more than is available Stateside. Two daughters of an affluent Birmingham, Mich., physician used $14,000 in low-interest Government student loans (see box) to invest in real estate and bank certificates. One of the most popular gambits in the new scramble for cheap loans is borrowing on the cash value of whole life insurance policies. People can often get the money...
...chills (wild gyrations in commodity and stock markets) and persistent weakness (the 7.3% drop in workers' purchasing power in the past twelve months is the worst since the Labor Department began keeping such figures 16 years ago). U.S. consumers and voters reacted by expressing anger against the head physician, Jimmy Carter...
DIED. Franz Ingelfinger, 69, German-born physician whose work on digestive-tract physiology revolutionized gastroenterology, whose teaching at Boston University Medical School shaped a generation of disciples known as "Fingerlings" and whose wit as editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, from 1967 to 1977, made it the nation's main medical forum; of cancer; in Boston...
...Women should have breast X rays, which previously were not recommended at all, once between 35 and 40 to establish a reference, then at the advice of a physician until 50, and every year after 50. Women should continue to give themselves breast examinations each month...
Speakers at the demonstration included Helen Caldicott, physician at Children's Hospital and president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Michio Kaku, associate professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York; Rep. Mel King (D-South End); and several Japanese survivors of the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki...