Word: physician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Medical Revolution. With the coming of war, almost all private medical practice ceased, for 95% of Britain's 61,000 physicians pledged their aid to the Government. Each physician who is assigned to an ambulance, first-aid post, or hospital, will draw a salary ranging from $2,500 to $7,500 a year for full-time services. All physicians remaining in private practice, and making more than their "normal" peacetime income will be required to place their surplus profits in a pool, to be divided among Army and Navy doctors at the war's end. Medical care...
...would sell her space anywhere aboard. Cluett, Peabody & Co.'s President Chesley Robert Palmer & family, who had crossed in a de luxe suite on Holland-America liner Nieuw Amsterdam, on the homeward passage shared three deck mattresses. To get ailing Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab, his nurse, valet and physician accommodations, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy had to intervene. Others who squeezed in just under the sellout: Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Financier John Pierpont Morgan; a man who described himself as "only a postage-stamp merchant," named James A. Farley, carrying an album of rare stamps given...
...people are such easy marks for propaganda and hokum. His patience has been taxed beyond endurance by the radio drivel of professors of astrology, by antivaccination and anti-whatnot laws, by a science professor who became a Faith Healer and let his son die of appendicitis without consulting a physician. Last fortnight Professor Curtis' patience finally boiled over...
Married. Sigrid Gurie, 24, Brooklyn-born, Norwegian-bred cinemactress; and Laurence C. Spangard, 42, Hollywood physician ; she for the second time, he for the first; in Hollywood...
Into a Hanford, Calif, hospital, interns brought Leonard Henton Cardwell, 58, graduate of a Tennessee medical college, once a practicing physician, now a greengrocer. He had tried to kill himself. Doctors examined him, found a bullet was lodged below his heart. Only chance for Grocer Cardwell's recovery seemed to be an immediate operation to remove the bullet. At that point the patient spoke up. Under California's medical law, as he well knew, no doctor could operate without the patient's consent. And the patient would not consent. Said...