Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...routine is familiar to virtually everyone who has ever checked into a hospital. Almost as soon as the patient slips into a hospital gown, he or she faces the standard diagnostic assault. Aptly known in medical jargon as the admission battery, it includes such procedures as a chest X ray, electrocardiogram, blood-cell count, blood-chemistry analysis, venere al-disease test and urinalysis...
...trend has been toward more tests. "Fearing malpractice suits, many physicians defensively order diagnostic tests simply to get them on the record even if they provide no information that will affect the patient's care. Also, with the introduction of expensive new diagnostic devices like computerized X-ray scanners, many doctors have come to equate good medicine with extensive use of such procedures...
Second Period: P--Dave Tweedy (Ray Casey) 2:48: H--Randy Millen (Jack Hughes, John Dunderdale...
...they ever did. Berry, doing a mean strut and split to Sweet Little Sixteen; Jerry Lee Lewis, ripping through a typically delirious rendition of Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On; Holly, singing Peggy Sue straight into the TV camera as if he wanted to short out the cathode-ray tubes: nothing cute, quaint or antique about any of this...
There is a ray of hope, however. Today and tomorrow, in the election of new assembly representatives, the Coalition for a Democratic University (CDU) is pushing that assembly to become more issue-oriented by putting up a slate of candidates running on the same platform. The CDU calls, rightly, for democratizing the CRR and the ASCR, open meetings for University committees, more aggressive affirmative action and so forth. But these issues are not the real issue...