Word: physician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...birthday party. They seemed to be having a fine time, in spite of tackling a routine banquet menu (grapefruit, chicken, peas, ice cream) without any preliminary cocktails. The celebration was the 14th anniversary of Alcoholics Anonymous. The two anonymous founders, Bill, a Manhattan stockbroker, and Bob, an Akron physician, were there to tell about A.A.'s growth...
...Little Liver Pills. Please can I have a chit so that I can get them free?") A few diehard doctors, still hoping that the act would be a bust, were blandly prescribing champagne, oysters, whiskey and rum for their patients-at government expense. Some patients were unreasonable. One physician, forced to cancel his evening office hours because of a difficult, ten-hour delivery, was greeted at his surgery next morning by four threatening hoodlums; he was now a servant of the people, they told him, and he had no right to be away during regular working hours. Some doctors were...
...committee puts in a welcome word for the commuter who consults his own physician regularly, and asks that he should not be required to contribute $15 a term to support a Hygiene Department that he never uses. The intricacies of University accounting cannot guarantee that the $100,000 is a concrete balance, but even the committee's figures, which ignore this profit, support the notion that such an amnesty for commuters would not push the department into...
...addition, the committee called for a program of undergraduate sex education and suggested that students who regularly visit a private physician be excused from payment of the annual...
...moral or religious convictions or that of their patients. If the bill were passed, no one would be obliged to seek or receive contraceptive information. It would only allow that woman who does not believe that contraception is against God's law to procure the advice from her physician which might save her life or preserve her health...