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...whose chief function is to refer patients to staff specialists. Restrictions on qualified generalists are strictest in large Eastern cities and include a complete shut-out in most teaching hospitals, limitation in others to minor surgery, nonoperative obstetrics, routine medical care. In Baltimore hospitals G.P.s are forbidden even to stitch a small cut or open an abscess in the emergency room. One hospital in Pittsburgh requires that the chief of obstetrics grant a G.P. official permission to use outlet forceps in a delivery. Twenty-three New York State hospital staffs are off limits to generalists...
...Napoleon is advancing upon Moscow. Mere versts away, within the Russian lines, French Agent Caroline de Salanches is retreating equally rapidly from Prince Michael Dubrovin. During an orgy at his estate, Prince Michael has exposed Agent Caroline. In fact, he has left her without a stitch of covering above the waist. The air is filled with shrieks, screams and wolfish roars as the Russian nobility, ever lovers of traditional customs, pursue nude serfs round and round the banquet hall. But Caroline is resolved at least to keep her head. As Prince Michael bears down upon her, his "greedy and sarcastic...
Life with Father. In Toledo, nervously sitting on the edge of his wife's hospital bed awaiting the birth of their first child, 200-lb. Policeman Melvin Breitner fainted and fell off the bed, broke his ankle, gashed a nine-stitch wound in his head...
...first surgeons to operate behind a screen of sheets soaked in carbolic acid in an effort to achieve sterile conditions, one of the first to use drip infusions (such as sugar and salt solutions) into veins. And he invented a daring operation to open and then stitch together an artery which had developed an aneurysm (like a blister on an inner tube). When Matas retired at 67, the trustees imported Ochsner from South Dakota (by way of St. Louis, Zurich, Chicago and Milwaukee); this time there was no home-grown crown prince...
German, who scored three goals and an assist in the Friar's only victory this season against Williams, was sidelined last Friday with a seven-stitch cut he received in a game against Princeton. P.C.'s coach, Dick Random, said last night that it had not yet been decided whether or not German would be able to play tonight...