Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors felt that they were fighting to save the intimate, personal relationship between doctor and patient and between family doctor and specialist. "Look here," said Lake, "if I tell some old dear that she's got to go into hospital for a pretty sticky operation, and tell her that I'm going to be there in the operating room with the surgeon, holding her hand, and that I'll come and see her every day-that can make all the difference to her decision to give consent to the operation, and even to her recovery...
...universities have not always lived up to that maxim. Under the influence of the Germans, who carried their pursuit of facts for their own sake to the last extreme, the laboratory began to overshadow the classroom, the specialist the student, and the idea that men must become well-rounded human beings before they become specialists was almost forgotten. In a later day, U.S. education fell into the anarchy of free electives, and scattered courses piecemeal before its students to be sampled as their taste or fancy dictated...
...Training: 6 to 9 weeks basic at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, or Sampson Air Force Base, Geneva, New York. Applications for OCS being so numerous at present, the applicant will probably continue to an enlisted specialist school while awaiting assignment to OCS. Six months OCS at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, then 3 years active duty. (Note: if candidate flunks course, he must serve out a 4-year enlistment...
Writes Burnand, a lung specialist, in Paris' Concours Médical: "We live under the rule of pharmacy . . . The equation
Another stringer who has become something of a specialist is Bill Abbott, who spent most of the past year digging into Florida crime and aiding the Kefauver Committee...