Word: zeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complain too much about their illnesses. (Geriatricians argue that the aged, because they are less responsive to pain, are apt to complain too little, so that dangerous conditions go undetected until they are irreparable.) He must take advantage of the limited but growing knowledge that geriatrics has amassed. Dr. Zeman likes to quote Sir James Crichton-Browne (who lived to be 97): "There is no short cut to longevity. To achieve it is the work of a lifetime...
Modern medicine has reversed the thinking of millenniums on the aging process and the aged. It holds that while aging is inevitable, many of the distressing changes so often seen with it can be palliated, minimized or actually averted. For this reason, Dr. Frederic Zeman, head physician at Manhattan's Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, insists on a semantic distinction, doggedly calls these changes "diseases...