Word: sigerist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mitchell's head finally got on the platter, neither President Bowman nor Dr. Mitchell had publicly explained by last week, when 150 bigwigs from the Hopkins faculty and Maryland's public life (including Johns Hopkins' famed Dr. Henry E. Sigerist, St. John's College's President Stringfellow Barr) gathered at a dinner to praise Dr. Mitchell, speak guardedly of "loss of tolerance" at the University. But to friends Broadus Mitchell explained privately: "The thing got to the pass where resignation was the only course. Bowman was too protesting about his tolerance-and then insulted...
...steps. It was built for Founder Welch, who was so rotund that he could not see beyond his middle, had to use the railing for a guide when he came to the edge of the platform and descended the steps. No need for a hand rail has energetic Dr. Sigerist who often takes the steps in one leap. Students enjoy his lively classes, for Dr. Sigerist does not mind expounding his dynamic conception of medical history in hand-to-hand argument. A student once took issue with him, and when Dr. Sigerist asked him to quote his authority the student...
...When?" asked Dr. Sigerist...
...said Dr. Sigerist, "three years is a long time. I've changed my mind since then...
...many foreign systems of health insurance, Dr. Sigerist is critical. For example the English system, under which a doctor receives about $2.25 a year to take care of each insured patient has led to a cheap type of bottle practice, and for the premium he pays, the insured patient receives only general medical care...