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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctor's Orders. In Hoboken, N.J., Joe Lawless, 11, limped into a hospital with a bullet wound in his leg and told the intern: "You don't have to go digging in there, Doc. I already dug it out with my penknife. Just put some penicillin...
...ambulance took her to Michael Reese Hospital, where an intern gave her a shot of coramine and caffeine. Then Staff Surgeon Harold Laufman and other doctors went to work...
...Professors in medical school," Dr. Robert Brown told a banquet of ballplayers in San Francisco last week, "can give a guy a bad time. Their oral examinations break many a medical student who can't take it." Dr. Brown, an intern at Southern Pacific General Hospital, credited his own success in medical school to pre-med training as a third baseman for the New York Yankees. "Big-league baseball conditioned me to hold up," said the "Golden Boy" who was paid a $50,000 bonus to sign with the Yanks in 1946. "I could look those profs...
...laws and extends the statute of limitations in spy cases from three to ten years. It sets up a Subversive Control Board to determine which groups are Communist dominated and provides for judicial review of this board's decisions. It gives the government power, in time of emergency, to intern persons suspected of intent to sabotage. It makes changes, designed to keep Communists out of the country, in the immigration and naturalization laws...
Nobody knew much about the dangers of overexposure to X rays when a young intern named Percy Emerson Brown set up the X-ray department at Boston Children's Hospital. The year was 1903 and the X ray was only seven years old. As Dr. Brown later wrote, "Enthusiasm was in the saddle, accoutered with the lance of investigation and the spurs of continued experimental revelation, but not yet with the shield and armor of protection...