Word: treating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...family physician sent her back to a Syracuse nose & throat specialist who operated on the tonsils, was later obliged to call in a general practitioner to treat a "puzzling pleurisy" which Medical Student Newcomer soon developed. She recovered, was graduated and licensed to practice medicine, went to Paris for postgraduate study, returned to Manhattan "to establish and run semi-public clinics for the so-called white-collar classes." She learned enough about what patients think of doctors to publish an emotional book on the subject last week...
...volume's most useful chapter was on "Choosing a Doctor." Dr. Newcomer's advice: Let a stranger sick in a big city apply to the Academy of Medicine or similar institution for the name of an able doctor who probably knows how to treat the illness and will not charge more than the patient can afford. Elsewhere sick strangers "must rely upon hospitals" or upon the county medical society...
Three Milwaukee doctors last week went through the unpleasant experience of being ejected from their county organization, for a violation of professional ethics. Their sin: They took fees ($1 per month) from well people in return for which they promised to treat their illnesses if & when...
...Alderson scrabbled in the shops of Hempstead, L. I. for cheap vegetables such as beets, carrots, potatoes. Twice a week the family also ate cheap meat, low grade eggs. A can of pears was a treat for dessert. Supper consisted of sandwiches with cocoa, tea or milk. Last week Methodist Alderson reported the five had not lost weight, had suffered no ailments worse than colds...
With frilly feminism she has no truck. "Millions of women make themselves miserable because their husbands never make love to them," she has said. "These suffering sisters could save themselves nearly all their woe if they would just throw their rosy dreams of how a husband should treat a wife into the discard. . . . A man marries to end romance...