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...further years for the "license." The Doctorate of Medicine required eight years of study, four theses and practical examinations in anatomy and other subjects. However, the remedies taught were limited to three for a long time: purges, enemas and bleedings. Charles Bouvard, for example, the physician of Louis VIII, gave him in one year forty-seven bleedings, two hundred and twelve enemas and two hundred and fifteen purges. As a result, he was made a noble. Valdemar Paradise Assistant Professor of Sociology Northern Essex Community College
...encourage further study of acupuncture and other forms of traditional Chinese medicine. The state legislature has cooperated with a new law that allows acupuncture to be performed by unlicensed practitioners for the purpose of scientific investigation. The only proviso is that the pin-sticking be supervised by a licensed physician. As a result, some Chinese acupuncturists in California are expected to begin work in medical-school hospitals. Others now practicing privately -in technical violation of the law -have so far been left alone by officials...
Explanations for this steadily increasing desire to become a physician are varied...
...ambiguous feelings about it set in early. The poet's physician father, a Birmingham medical officer who used to stud his lectures on such public health innovations as the flush toilet with quotations from Virgil, unsettled his son by confiding that doctors never really know why their patients get well. The enormities of the age of anxiety have since produced an increasing conviction that measurable knowledge does not adequately account for, or much ease, the pain and confusion of modern life. The poet, like many another brilliant soul, has concluded that we are in God's hand...
...that was needed was a way of linking them together. Nor was money a problem. The national highway program, which stresses safety, provided $1.2 million to get things started. Local support proved equally easy to enlist. The state merely set standards for participation in the program (fulltime emergency-room physician, an intensive-care unit, radio communications and a helicopter landing pad); local communities decided which hospitals would be best suited to be trauma centers. Opposition to the plan from local physicians or ambulance operators quickly disappeared. Says Flashner: "It's the type of program that's difficult...