Word: pediatricians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychology goes from door to door, providing both religious solace and the same "listening therapy" dispensed by the mental health aides. Ordinary medical doctors have been pressed into service, too, serving as listeners while they treat patients for physical ailments complicated by flood-inflicted traumas. One of these, Pediatrician Mark Spurlock, has found that Buffalo Creek children have more nightmares now, and that "asthmatics are wheezing more." Among his patients is a child who comes in at intervals for allergy shots; his mother recounts the story of the flood on every visit. "She doesn't even know...
Reverse Alchemy. Violence is holding its own. Five crime and Western shows are being canceled by the networks, but another six are being added. TV's medical corps, on the other hand, is definitely growing. NBC plans The Little People, about a Hawaiian pediatrician and his pediatrician daughter, and ABC has Temperature's Rising, about the chief surgeon in a big city hospital. Both shows will combine the medical genre with the situation-comedy formula. The only new programming of a serious nature is an hour on NBC that will alternate between NBC Reports and Alistair Cooke...
...yearlong study of medical manpower, Henry Mason of the association's department of undergraduate medical education concludes that the problem is not scarcity but uneven distribution. In South Dakota, for example, there is only one internist for every 12,813 people. In 18 states, there is only one pediatrician for each 20,000. Obstetrician-gynecologists are also unevenly distributed; while the national median is 1 to 11,915, the ratio in ten states is only 1 to 20,000. There is also some overabundance, for example, one general surgeon for every 7,554 people in the U.S. today...
Standing Up. Anesthesiologist Barbara Lipton encountered a typical response while interning at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She held retractors for a neurosurgeon during a particularly long operation. The surgeon, duly impressed with her perseverance, sent her a Christmas greeting: "To one of the boys." Says Pediatrician-Hematologist Darleen Powars: "There are hundreds of ways to discourage woman surgeons. There's no place for a woman resident to sleep. And if you want to urinate some other way than standing up, you have a problem...
...pediatrician in Grand Junction, Dr. Robert Ross, noticed an increase in the number of cleft palates and other birth defects in the area, and communicated his concern to Dr. C. Henry Kempe, chairman of the pediatrics department at the University of Colorado's Medical Center. Their joint studies, reported last October, indicated that the incidence of cleft lip and palate was almost twice as high in the Grand Junction area as for the rest of Colorado, the birth rate significantly lower, the death rate from congenital anomalies 50% higher...