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...including acute intestinal infections, are all especially liable to lac-tase-deficiency difficulties. Now that the results of research in lactase function are being drawn to doctors' attention for use in their daily practice, the A.M.A. Journal has been moved to rhapsodize editorially: "What a joy to the clinician to find the arcane skills of research scientists directed to such matters as bloating, flatulence, cramps and diarrhea!" The Journal adds: "Some patients will now acquire a new dignity, with the status of enzyme deficiency rather than neurosis...
...speech clinician responsible for the post-laryngectomy speech rehabilitation of many patients, I feel that many people who read the article on laryngectomy will believe that swallowing air is the only method of attaining intelligible esophageal speech...
WHEN David Riesman quit medicine for the law, a superb clinician moved to a rather alien field. It is this image of Riesman that remains after all the criticisms of this book--a man who is, for all the lapses in reasoning and method this volume suggest, astonishingly perceptive of the disquiet that troubles American intellectuals. Perhaps Riesman will be of more interest to intellectual historians than sociologists of the future, but to either group he has an immediate message about his world that must not be obscured by the real but almost irrelevant lapses in his methods and definitions
...Vatican. As the storm of censure mounted, the greatest cry was appropriately against the money-hungry doctor rather than the story-hungry press. Milan's daily Il Giorno (circ. 150,000), coming to the astonished realization that the Pope's chief physician was not a tried clinician, asked what was, perhaps, the most startling question raised by the whole furor: "How could Pius XII entrust his health for so many years to a quack...
...last week's British Medi cal Journal, is that Dickens did so with impressive clinical accuracy.* When doctors were just beginning to evaluate physical symptoms and other authors were using vague terms like "brain fever," Dickens "looked on disease with the ob serving eye of the expert clinician ... so that he often gives us accounts that would do credit to the trained physician." Samples...