Word: poss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago, a mistaken diagnosis in an emergency room led to the death of a 15-year-old girl last November. Sent to Cook County Hospital with a physician's note that read "Poss. acute appendicitis," the girl, mistakenly diagnosed as having VD, was given a penicillin shot and instructed to seek help at a clinic. She died of gangrenous appendicitis within 24 hours...
Today's best hope for improving the cure rate lies not in more sophisticated technology but in a return to the use of the human eye, aided by magnifying lenses, for direct examination of tissues in which disease may be developing. The technique is called colposcopy (pronounced col-poss-cuppy), and its most ardent proponent is the University of Mississippi's Dr. Karl A. Bolten, who learned it from its inventor in Bolten's native Germany...