Word: gastroenterologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wire basket threaded through the endoscope and extracted from the mouth of the sedated patient. The general anesthesia required in surgery is not necessary. Patients can eat on the same day and frequently resume their normal routine after only an overnight stay in the hospital. Dr. Jerome Siegel, a gastroenterologist at New York's Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, has used this method on about 150 patients and is sold on it. Says he: "Within 48 hours, one of my patients, a 58-year-old woman, played 18 holes of golf-and shot a better score than usual...
Some traditionalists are distressed by all the talk of abandoning professional courtesy. After Wolfson and Bass denounced the no-fee practice as a relic in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, it received a spate of critical letters. Gastroenterologist William Haubrich of La Jolla, Calif., protested that proffering a bill to a fellow doctor smacks of commercialism and erodes the strong feelings of fraternalism in the medical community. Oklahoma City Internist Ernest Warner Jr. added: "One of the greatest honors one can receive is to be asked by a fellow physician to care...
...vice president; from there she headed for New York City for a gathering of the American College of Cardiology. At 6 p.m. Saturday, she was welcomed home by her three teen-age daughters?just in time to bustle off to a party with her husband Julius, a gastroenterologist...