Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Morgan persuaded the College of Philadelphia to set up the first American medical school. The prototype of the British voluntary hospital was established with the founding of the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1751, the New York in 1771 and the Massachusetts General in 1811, moving the care of the sick poor and the teaching of medical students out of the almshouses. With the founding of the first mental hospital, the Virginia "insane asylum" at Williamsburg, shortly before the Revolution, the mentally ill began to be moved from jails and almshouses to state-sponsored, more humane institutions. Early on, the great...
...increasingly difficult to pay their medical bills. The private sector in the 1930s developed the Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurance system of prepayment for hospitals and physicians. In the public sector, the Social Security mechanism and general tax revenues were used to pay the costs of the indigent sick, the disabled, the elderly and such special groups as veterans, migrant farmers and American Indians. A variety of amendments to the Social Security Act of 1935 culminated in Medicaid (a federal, state and local program for financing medical-care needs of the indigent sick) and Medicare (compulsory health insurance...
...global wrath against the Canadian government is certain," wrote the Frankfurter Allgemeine. "In a confrontation between sports and politics, sports proved to be powerless." "Politics should not be an issue any more than religion," said Edward W. ("Moose") Krause, athletic director at Notre Dame. "This just makes me sick." Lord Killanin, head of the International Olympic Committee, was sick too. "Government interference is the most serious problem we face," he declared. "We're scarred, and I, as president, have had my eye blackened...
...overwhelmed doctors after 15 months of civil war, as many as 100 injured and ill Lebanese a week are slipping across the border to get aid from Israeli doctors. One Lebanese cabby even conducts a regular ambulance run to the frontier. Signs on the Lebanese side direct the sick and wounded to nearby Israeli towns where special first-aid stations have been set up. So far, the Jewish physicians have treated 2,000 Lebanese; some 100 are still recovering in Israeli hospitals. Initially, most of the patients were Christians, apparently because they were not as fearful of reprisals from their...
...complaints-recently voiced by the Arabs and their supporters before the World Health Organization-that Israel is giving inadequate medical care to Arabs under its own rule. Basri, however, has no illusions about any diplomatic payoff from Doctor. "We're all waiting for peace," she observes, "but the sick can't wait...