Word: pediatricians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what were the diagnoses?, etc. Nobody asks you what community activities you and your staff carried out. This interaction of the staff and the community right in their homes is much more important in getting to the roots of the problems than are the number of people each pediatrician sees," Dr. Salber said...
...year ago, Dr. Leon Kruger was just about the most sought-after pediatrician in the prosperous Boston suburb of Newton. At 46, Kruger earned $50,000 a year, sent his children to some of the nation's finest suburban public schools, owned a ten-room house filled with costly art objects. But he felt that he should be treating poor instead of rich patients. Now Kruger has quit Newton, moved to the Mississippi Delta hamlet of Mound Bayou (pop. 1,354), where he runs a federally financed clinic for impoverished Negroes, some of them literally starving. The move cost...
...result, says Harlan County Pediatrician Doane Fischer, is that 30% of the children he treats are undersized, half are infested with worms and intestinal parasites, and over 60% have rotting teeth. Not one house in ten in Wolfe County is sound; up to 30% of mountain folk are functionally illiterate and condemned to idleness because their meager skills as coal miners have been obviated by the huge strip-mining machines that rip apart Kentucky's hillside seams. Federal aid to Appalachia, totaling $450 million since 1965, has done little to alleviate their plight. Industries that could bring work have...
...metabolism," indicating that something was wrong with the patients' enzyme systems. But what? Although it was easy to show that victims had an excess of uric acid in their blood, the metabolic pathways by which it got there remained hidden in the biochemical jungle. Then in Baltimore, Pediatrician William L. Nyhan Jr. and Dr. Michael Lesch saw two retarded brothers with the palsy and biting symptoms. It has since been learned that a substance was missing from their blood: an enzyme forbiddingly named hypo-xanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltrans-ferase, or PRT in the trade...
Michael K. Ferber, a second-year Harvard graduate student, and four other men--including Dr. Benjamin Spock, the noted pediatrician, and William Sloan Coffin Jr., Yale University chaplain--were indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston Friday on charges of conspiring to counsel young men to violate the draft laws...