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...Haig. The eight-car motorcade, led by a car full of Secret Service agents, slid off into the cool, clear Washington night. Thirty-eight minutes later, again looking preoccupied and rather alone, Nixon checked into the third-floor presidential suite at Bethesda Naval Hospital. The President, said his personal physician, Dr. Walter R. Tkach, had come down with viral pneumonia (see MEDICINE...
...licensed to treat patients' ills is a doctor and is undeniably practicing medicine. But is he therefore a doctor of medicine and entitled to put the magical letters M.D. after his name? Yes, contends Richard Oliver, 43, a physician who practices in the little (pop. 6,000) Georgia town of Eastman. No, says the Composite State Board of Medical Examiners, which licenses physicians to practice in Georgia...
Oliver is a doctor of osteopathy, a graduate of the Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is entitled to call himself a doctor and put the letters D.O. after his name. Oliver has had unusually broad training and experience for a physician of any school, and practices obstetrics and gynecology in a small, neat building that he shares with a family-practitioner M.D. He also practices his specialty in the Dodge County Hospital. But, he complains, 90% of Georgians don't know what an osteopathic physician is and are apt to confuse him with "rubbin' doctors," chiropractors...
...Nixon's physician said that the president had "no complications." He added that he had prescribed rest and medication...
Ziegler said Nixon had called in his physician, Dr. Walter Tkach, at 5:30 a.m., complaining of discomfort in his right chest. After preliminary examinations, the president went to work, he said...