Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...signs or enhance them "for esoteric value" with much mythology. Actually, Schmidt borrows some myths from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, both on Cetus (a monster sent by Neptune to devour Andromeda) and on Ophiuchus (either a king killing a dragon, Heracles killing a serpent, or a physician curing snakebites). "Anyway," Stillman insists, "according to Schmidt, I'm an Aquarius. But I don't feel it or act it. Therefore...
Died. Dr. Thomas Stowell, 85, British physician; of heart disease; in London. Despite a distinguished career, he came to public notice only in the final week of his life, when he published an article implying that Jack the Ripper was actually Edward VII's eldest son, the Duke of Clarence (TIME...
...fresh and growing trend, more than 40 training programs for doctors' assistants are under way across the country. The graduates, already numbering in the hundreds, are tagged with clumsy names-paramedic, clinical associate, health practitioner. They all relieve doctors of time-consuming jobs like preliminary diagnostic tests. The physician then reviews the findings and decides treatment for a dozen patients in the same time he might otherwise spend personally diagnosing a single patient...
...health to bacteriology and psychosomatic medicine, plus techniques such as regulating intravenous infusions and operating respirators. As a recent Duke graduate put it: "It's not all flashing scalpels and white coats, but you can pack a lot of medicine into two years." Duke is training 40 future physician assistants a year, most of them ex-medical corpsmen. A dozen Duke graduates have already helped to set up similar programs at other medical schools. For every graduate, there are five or six job offers-most paying $10,000 a year or more...
...only the equivalent of a fifth-grade education. Many are recruited from welfare rolls. At Watts Health Center in Los Angeles and at The Bronx's Montefiore Hospital, for instance, the workers learn to incorporate some of the functions of the public health nurse, the lawyer, social worker, physician and health educator. They make house calls and are trained to help people negotiate with welfare and other agencies to get the help they need...