Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...article's author is Thomas Stowell, a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, who in his youth studied under Sir William Gull, physician to Queen Victoria. Another of Gull's patients, writes Stowell, was Jack the Ripper. Although Stowell refers to the killer as "S" throughout the article, he drops enough clues to leave little doubt as to the madman's identity...
...usually takes at least eight years before a U.S. college graduate can practice medicine on his own. As a result, the world's best medical training has a serious flaw: the U.S. has only one physician for every 650 people, compared with the Soviet ratio of one to 400 and the Italian figure of one to 580. One out of 50 Americans has no access to a doctor under any circumstances. To cure the shortage, the nation's chief health officer, Dr. Roger Egeberg, prescribes an immediate injection of 50,000 new physicians -a 15% increase in those...
...mere ripple in comparison with mounting waves of problems to be faced when the financial barriers to health care are lowered." To meet a demand for ever more doctors, it urges medical schools to update the Flexner plan and to adopt a program that it says could fill the physician gap by 1980. Among its recommendations...
...Lynch, told his Winthrop House audience that long experience as a physician has convinced him that most women seeking an abortion really want to give birth, regardless of what they...
MANY people joke about surgeons leaving assorted instruments in their patients. Not John Everard, 33, a worker in an airplane factory in Glendale, Calif. Shortly after Everard had undergone a gallbladder operation, he began to feel pains in his lower right abdomen. His physician assured him that his discomfort was normal and would soon disappear. It persisted; more than two years later, an X ray revealed why: Everard's surgeon had failed to remove a hemostat, or surgical clamp, which had lodged in his patient's abdominal cavity. The facts speak for themselves, argued Everard's attorney...