Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the town fathers of Bristol, Va. (pop. 15,954) set aside $8,500 for "ornamental stone" to decorate their new $1,200,000 high school, they did not specify exactly what they wanted. The choice was left to the school's architect, who decided on a piece from one of Italy's leading modern sculptors, Pericle Fazzini (TIME, May 7, 1951). But when the packing case arrived from Rome last year and the school officials got their first look, they gasped in pained surprise. Inside was a 6½ft. expressionistic bronze statue of a nude...
...meeting future increases. Dr. Middleton will be confronted by a unique set of problems. More than half his patients -and most of the waiting list of applicants-are psychiatric cases, 14% are tuberculous; "the turnover is slow, keeps 90% of VA hospital beds filled (compared with 85% for non-VA hospitals). Thanks to congressional pork-barreling, many VA hospitals are sparsely occupied white elephants, e.g., a modern, 1,000-bed general hospital in Dublin, Ga., has only 385 beds...
...cooperation with 72 U.S. medical schools, the VA also runs a $7,000,000-a-year research program, begun...
...Sawtelle, as at other VA installations, medical researchers are experimenting with dozens of new medical techniques. Among them: putting epileptics, once considered unemployable, to work making airplane parts; studying the life and death of tissue cultures of glia (cells of the nervous system's supporting structure) to determine the causes of multiple sclerosis; a new, intensive (one psychiatrist for 20 patients) method of treating mental patients...
Appomattox & the Future. One of the most serious problems Dr. Middleton faces is the shortage of doctors on the VA staff. The VA now employs 4,427 full-time doctors, whose salaries range between $5,500 and $12,800 a year. But they are not allowed to practice on the side, which keeps many specialists out-and more specialists is precisely what the VA needs. One growing attraction to doctors is the VA's impressive research program and such well-equipped centers as Sawtelle. where ,they can go on studying anything from cancer to schizophrenia...