Word: pediatricians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anything but frothy and rarely funny, the film turns a gay dog of an artist (Louis Jourdan) loose in the happy home of a stuffy, successful pediatrician (Dana Andrews) and his wife-receptionist (Lilli Palmer). Stung by the doctor's smug criticism of his art, the tempestuous painter cuts him down to size by trying-almost successfully-to break up his marriage. In the process, the picture tries-and always fails-to palm off drivel as drollery. Sample: a long, witless sequence in which the artist weeps for some lobsters that are boiled alive for the doctor...
...Gollan practiced as a pediatrician, did research work on high blood pressure, made malnutrition studies of Italian children for UNRRA. In 1946 he went to the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he is now assistant professor of physiology...
...baby's body of water and salts. Doctors have tried to prevent dehydration by feeding the victims large amounts of saline fluids, but this treatment did not help much. Something was needed-some substance that made it possible for babies to retain the fluids. After long study, Pediatrician Daniel C. Darrow, of Yale's School of Medicine, decided that potassium was the important substance; the old treatments were not using enough of it. Babies with diarrhea sometimes lose one-fourth of the potassium in their body cells...
Last Sunday night, for example, Mrs. Theodore Brown, wife of a third-year law student, was having baby trouble. Her 13-month-old daughter, Pamela, had been wheezing all evening. Her husband was out of town. Her pediatrician was in Manchester for the weekend. Along about midnight, she was afraid that the wheezing might be something serious...
Radiating from its 79 Mount Auburn Street headquarters, the Service will penetrate the home, the clinic, or the hospital, depending upon what environment the situation requires. To do this, it has one full-time pediatrician (Dr. Kiehl), one part-time pediatrician (Dr. William Dickson), a medical director (Dr. Francis MacDonald), two nurses, and a corp of secretaries...