Word: pediatricians
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...Value of Words. "The greatest difficulty these children have is in language," explains Dr. Robert E. Cooke, chief pediatrician at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and one of the key Head Start planners. "Other children are taken into laps, held, read to and shown pictures. At first they don't get much-only emotional value. The deprived child, without this exposure, never gets the emotional reassurance of the words and pictures...
Happy Ignorance. The blame, says Dr. Elmer Grossman of the University of California department of pediatrics, can be placed squarely on the nation's physicians. In the current issue of GP, the publication of the American Academy of General Practitioners, Pediatrician Grossman complains that too many doctors are "happy to ignore the subject" and let the mother indulge her prejudices against breast feeding...
Each year, about 7,000 American babies less than a year old die of inborn heart defects. "Eighty percent of these infants could be saved by surgery," says Baylor University's Pediatrician Dan G. McNamara. The trouble is, Dr. McNamara told an international meeting on the heart and circulation of the newborn, that not enough physicians are trained to detect the sometimes subtle signs that a "cranky" baby may actually have severe deformities of the heart or major blood vessels...
...study done under the guidance of Johns Hopkins' famed Pediatrician Helen B. Taussig, report the Kentucky doctors, showed that no fewer than 327 (out of 7,000) U.S. hospitals claimed in 1961 to have all the facilities-including a heart-lung machine-for doing open-heart surgery. In that year, 37 of the hospitals reported that their equipment had never been used: not a single open-heart operation. In 97 hospitals where there had been operations, the total was fewer than ten; in 117 there had been from ten to 50. In only 56 medical centers were open-heart...
Died. Dr. Sidney Haas, 94, Manhattan pediatrician who in the early 1920s found cures for two of childhood's most troublesome ailments, discovering that minuscule doses of highly poisonous atropine would curb colic among infants (it is now also used by ulcer patients), and that a year-long diet of bananas would completely rehabilitate sufferers from celiac disease, which causes such acute diarrhea that one-fourth of its victims used to die from malnutrition; in Orange...