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There has been no big medical emergency in Vinton County, Ohio, recently-no epidemics, no multiple accidents. Still, the 10,000 residents have been apprehensive. In February their doctor and neighbor of 22 years, Richard Bullock, left abruptly. No other physician lives or practices in the county seat of McArthur, and the closest hospital is 25 miles away. At last, an intensive search for a new general practitioner has succeeded; a new doctor will soon be at the consulting room desk on which Bullock left his stethoscope nine months...
Patient on Call. In 1948, when Bullock first came to McArthur, there were three other doctors to help meet the area's medical needs. By 1959, the death or departure of his colleagues had left him the sole physician. Vacations, even days off, became luxuries beyond his reach. "I had office hours six days a week," he recalls now, "but there wasn't a Sunday I didn't have to go into the office for one thing or another." Bullock attempted to give up work at the hospital, which consumed a large part of his time, only...
...news was worth $90,000 in cash and invaluable prestige in his profession. But Sutherland, a physician turned researcher who is more at home in a trout stream than an ivory tower, received the tidings with candid nonchalance. He made unassuming remarks about the award being "terrific" and "an honor and a pleasure." Then he observed: "I've known that I've been under consideration for a long time. My friends were saying, 'Maybe this year or maybe next year...
Mechanistic Particle. Working his way through medical school, Jesse assumes his maternal grandfather's name, Vogel, and does brilliantly. He becomes an acolyte of great men and husband to the daughter of a world-famous physician. Death is no mystery to him; it is simply a cold, banal fact. Love is the great puzzle, and it keeps turning cancerous in his hands. At the height of his career, Jesse is an important Chicago neurosurgeon. Delivering a learned paper on "Retrograde Amnesia," he notes that in certain brain injuries recent memories are more easily extinguished than distant memories...
...needed them. A year ago, three out of every four of the 798 students in Banneker elementary school were reading below the national average for their grade. The pupils were all black and mostly from poor families. "We are at rock bottom," admitted Alfonso D. Holliday II, a black physician who headed the city's school board. At Holliday's prodding, the board turned over the entire school for three years to Behavioral Research Laboratories, a firm based in Menlo Park, Calif...