Word: physician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...physician's daughter herself, Graham ministers blunt doses of good sense. About the discredited cancer drug Laetrile, she insists: "At best it is an expensive and cruel hoax. At worst it is dangerous." She rails against the phony cheerfulness of some visitors to desperately ill patients: "Distraction isn't what's needed. Perception is." She advises the ailing to be candid as well but reminds them of Hemingway's definition of courage as "grace under pressure." To relieve physical discomfort, she encourages friends to help on the simplest level: "Cook a meal, do the dishes, mend...
...American medical treatment less helpful, but I preferred "native treatment" because I felt it would be more efficacious to my health. Thus I have the conviction that the African people will never find a cure to the disease that is plaguing their continent until they become their own physician...
...such well-meaning advice doesn't work, even the least pill-happy physician usually writes out prescriptions for chemical Band-aids; after all, time is limited. Supposing even that doesn't work, the student will be advised to talk to a UHS psychiatrist. He or she will not be exposed to the humiliation integral to many of the quack therapies (such as EST's day-long sessions with two rest periods, no cigarettes or alcohol, just a barrage of ideology that costs $300.) But the message, in the end, will most likely be bald in the extreme: "Bite the bullet...
Among the rewards of being a physician Ebert noted the "substantial" pay, the intellectual satisfaction of working in biological science, and the enormous "spiritual and emotional reward" of helping people...
...Robert H. Ebert, who recently retired as dean of the Medical School, spoke before the Cambridge Forum Wednesday night about the role of the physician. Ebert, who served as dean for 12 years, examined the rewards of being a physician, in the process giving a brief history of his own life. He also focused on the conflicts inherent in the physician...