Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...health cost Dr. Warnshuis his job. When he took the secretaryship of the California Medical Association, A. M. A. headquarters in Chicago expected him to control that State's alarming tendency toward socialized medicine. But Dr. Warnshuis was unable to prevail against Dr. Walter Bernard Coffey, pugnacious chief surgeon of Southern Pacific Railroad, who bosses the politicians who control the practice of medicine in California. Results: California Medical Association last year practically bolted from the American Medical Association. The A. M. A. refused to elect a California doctor as trustee. Eleven thousand California doctors have virtually no say concerning...
...locate permanently in a strange and large city would do well to obtain letters of introduction from a physician of the community from which he is about to move. . . . Choose, then, a man who is known as a general practitioner or an internal medical man, rather than a surgeon or a specialist for your personal medical adviser...
Across Dr. Brooks's abdomen Surgeon John Frederick Erdmann, 71, cut a twelve-inch opening. Surgeons John J. Moorhead, 61, and Harold Denman Meeker, 60, functioned as assistants. Standing on stools and craning their heads over the surgeon's shoulders were Diagnosticians Alexander Lambert, 74; Emanuel Libman, 63; Harry Aaron Solomon...
Deciding eventually that the Count could not absorb the pus in the abscess, Dr. Castillo called into consultation Dr. Ricardo Núñez Portuondo, crack surgeon, onetime president of the Cuban Federation of Medicine. Surgeon Núñez lanced the abscess. Within 48 hours out oozed a quart of accumulated blood. In a subsequent hemorrhage the Count lost another pint of blood. Packing the abscess cavity with gauze failed to stop bleeding. Drugs failed to stop it. Nothing seemed able to make the patient's blood clot. He was at the point of dying from hemophilia...
Because it was politically unfocused, opposition to Dr. Parran as Surgeon General fizzled out, and the Senate last week quietly confirmed his appointment to a job which pays him $9,800 a year instead of the $12,000 a year he was getting while in Albany...