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...yawning gap between this flank and the west coast. Around it the North Koreans poured two crack divisions, the 4th and 6th (described, in Douglas MacArthur's overoptimistic communiqués of that period, as "roving bands). In a matter of days they swept through the southwestern corner of Korea and raced east for Pusan. They were in sight of Masan, 30 miles from Pusan, before they were stopped by a small, determined force of the 24th Infantry (later replaced in that sector by the 25th). It was the closest the enemy ever got to Pusan during the entire...
...rate the Eighth Army and the X Corps were approaching each other, a junction seemed almost certain this week. After that, the trend of battle would depend on: 1) how many North Koreans would be caught in the southwestern corner; 2) whether these troops would be able to fight or filter north through the Allied line (the U.S. spearheads driving up from the southeast naturally had no solid line behind them); 3) whether the Communists would be able and willing to fight in the northeastern corner of South Korea, with whatever troops could be regrouped in that area. If they...
...should every U.S. medical-school graduate spend one or two years as an intern in a hospital before entering private practice? Answering his own question last week, Dr. William Lee Hart, dean of the University of Texas' Southwestern Medical School, suggested that it was time to do away with the whole "outmoded" internship system. Instead, said Dr. Hart, a fledgling doctor fresh out of school should put in a year's practical training as assistant to a small-town doctor...
Because most medical schools are now closely linked with hospitals, Dr. Hart argued, the young doctor no longer needs further practical experience on hospital wards. At Southwestern, for example, students spend seven out of their twelve terms in Dallas hospitals-"which ought to be enough." In fact, said Dr. Hart, the intern system sometimes does more harm than good. Under a "hierarchy of hospital staffers" the intern comes to depend on continuing supervision, which may make his transition to independent practice more difficult...
...most alarming event of the week was the North Koreans' rapid mop-up of the whole southwestern corner of the peninsula and most of the south coast. The U.S. left flank had been dangling somewhere near Chonju (see map); there were not enough men to extend the Allied line to the west coast, and furthermore, the U.S. left had to be pulled back as Korea's defenders retired to the build-up zone around Pusan. But the North Koreans sped the withdrawal to a dangerous pace. They simply poured around the open flank. At some points they were...