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...twinge of jealousy over her lumberman boy friend, the wife of a Phoenix physician chopped up a couple of the lumberman's lady friends and shipped them to California in trunks. Now-after 40 years, a sensational trial and seven escapes from mental hospitals-"Tiger Woman" Winnie Ruth Judd, 66, has been granted a commutation of her life sentence by Arizona Governor Jack Williams. If she gets the parole board's permission, the matronly murderess plans to return to the San Francisco suburb of Damville, where she was recaptured in 1969 after spending several years incognito as housekeeper...
...published his comprehensive critical report on medical education in 1910. The first period emphasized the general practitioner, who had broad-but rarely deep-training in the science and clinical techniques of his day. This gave way in the 1940s to a trend toward specialization as doctors realized that no physician could possibly be competent in all areas of medicine. During the post-Sputnik '50s and '60s, scientific research was assigned high priority and prestige, along with generous financing. The fourth era, if the most reform-minded of the students and young physicians have their way, will stress wholesale...
There is also anxiety that the current antipathy toward laboratory work may slow the process of the basic research that has produced so many of the advances in modern medicine. Asks one Manhattan physician: "Where will we find the next generation's Albert Sabin if no one goes into research...
...contributed to the breakup of his marriage. Finally, the pressure proved too much for him. In late January, he bought space in the county newspaper to announce that at the age of 53 he was closing down his practice. Three weeks later, he became a 9-to-5 clinic physician at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Va. "I couldn't go on like I was," he recalls. "Emotionally it was the most difficult time of my life...
...effects of ECS can be severe, and include not only permanent loss of diagnostic ability in the physician but "perpetual wrong disease labeling" in his patient. Fortunately, ECS is completely preventable. Gross's recommended prophylaxis: skepticism. Physicians should rely on their own observations, not on those of their colleagues. Nor should they hesitate to be like the child in the Andersen story and admit that the Emperor is naked. Such an attitude, says Gross, leads to hyperimmunity...