Word: physician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patients, conclude Lipkin & Joseph, should be treated as human beings, not as cases. "The good surgeon is also a good physician. The good physician ministers not only to tissue pathology but to the needs of sick people...
...Named for the Norwegian physician, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, who isolated the bacillus...
Before the week was out, Congress took one step toward restoring legislative calm. The House voted $150,000 to buy new chairs for the House floor. The old wooden seats, explained Capitol Physician George Calver, were so long from front to back that when a member sat back, circulation was cut off at his calves. When he sat forward to ease his legs, he tended to slump down, push his stomach up into his lungs, impairing his digestion and breathing. The new armless models would permit members to recline in healthy, upholstered comfort and, possibly, improve congressional dispositions...
...When Floral Park's handsome society physician, Dr. Herbert J. Bernhardt, broke into the apartment of his estranged wife, Mary, brandishing a crowbar and followed by five ax-wielding minions, the woman from downstairs screamed, the two babies woke up crying in the back room and the dance instructor dropped his demitasse and fell off his chair." Tabloid readers just had to read to see what happened after the instructor and the demitasse hit the floor...
...even the life of a wealthy, pampered dandy could not go undisturbed. Proust's father, a successful physician, was a Catholic; his mother, whom he adored and whose image dominated his life, was Jewish. When Marcel was 23, the Dreyfus affair split France, and the young man instinctively rushed to the defense of the Jewish captain. In one of the few political acts of his life, Proust circulated petitions for Dreyfus' release. The echoes of the affair rang in his novel years later; after the bigoted behavior of his aristocratic Parisian friends, Proust could never write long about...