Word: international
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roxbury Latin School. The son of a doctor, young Paul sometimes got to drive his father's horse & buggy. He soon knew that he meant to be a doctor himself; when his sister died of rheumatic fever, he began to focus his interest on heart diseases. Intern White was sent to England to buy the Massachusetts General Hospital's first electrocardiograph and learn to run the new-fangled thing. That was in 1913. Dr. White has been taking tracings of heart impulses ever since. He has gone on to become one of the world's top authorities...
When she was eleven years old, the patient was taken to the hospital with a stomachache. There, a young intern recommended a psychiatric examination and sent her home with some aspirin. The aspirin seemed to work wonders. Neither the girl nor her parents saw much need for psychiatry...
...trained legs proved useful at Andover, where he made the track team and, in general, caught up with the rest of the boys. At Yale he was a social success. At medical school he rose to the head of his class. He was one of the first doctors to intern in both pediatrics and psychiatry...
...Girl In White (MGM) is based on Dr. Emily Dunning Barringer's 1950 Bowery to Bellevue, about her experiences as New York's first woman ambulance intern at the turn of the century. The theme of the vigorously factual book was: Can a woman be a doctor? The issue in this rather weak, fictional adaptation: Can a woman doctor also be a woman...
...played by June Allyson, Dr. Barringer behaves more like an ingenue than an intern. And the complaints she is called upon to cure are mostly her own heartaches. She cannot make up her mind whether she loves Dr. Arthur Kennedy (playing Dr. Ben Barringer, whom Dr. Emily Dunning married in. real life) or Hospital Head Gary Merrill...