Word: quack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although U.S. doctors have long known about the damage done by quack cancer cures, they often lack specific clinical evidence to back them up. At a meeting of the International College of Surgeons in Washington last week, Dr. Charles E. Horton of Duke University Hospital produced a sizable body of evidence: 64 case histories of men and women who had first gone to backwoods cancer quacks and then, uncured, had gone on to Duke...
Practice & Preaching. Of the 64 patients, reported Dr. Horton, ten probably never had cancer, 27 had cancer but suffered unnecessarily because of quack treatments, and 27 died because their cases had become incurable by the time they reached the hospital. Typical cases...
When the Student Council tentatively voted last week to abolish the Senior Class Day Committee, it behaved much like the quack doctor who decided to cut off his patient's toe because of a sore toe. Recognizing the evil in the election procedure for the Permanent Class and Class Day Committees is meritable, but the Council should make a more thorough examination of the problem before its final decision tonight...
...labyrinth, memory was a better guide than hope. Koestler proved faithful to the links of a Jewish family-to those who loved him without Freudian gimmicks-his father, a lovable crank who went broke backing quack inventions; his mother, so invincibly bourgeois that she knew her son could never have been a jailbird...
...Quacks attract patients by "kindness, consideration, and recognition of the patient as a person." They give the appearance of explaining things to the patient in understandable English. "The quack ties the patient to him through the bonds of grateful appreciation . . . The cancer patient seeks not only adequate medical care, but sympathetic emotional support...