Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face wry with suppressed vituperatives Dr. Edward William Alton Ochsner of New Orleans last week sedulously searched for the scoundrel who stole the carbon copy of a letter he recently wrote to a friend, Dr. Allen Oldfather Whipple, professor of surgery at Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. Ochsner, 34, has since 1927 been professor of surgery at old (founded 1834) and ponderously named School of Medicine of the College of Medicine of the Tulane University of Louisiana. He succeeded famed Professor Rudolph Matas. Tulane wanted Dr. Ochsner "to bring the medical school to the highest possible...
Bergen Barter. Unusual was a deal proposed in an advertisement in the Bergen Record (Hackensack, N. J.) last week. "An experienced dental surgeon," it said, "stands ready to exchange his service for merchandise or edibles...
...Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service last week deplored the fact that "over 76% of the rural population of the U. S. is as yet unprovided with official local health service which approaches adequacy." Smartly he chided county officials: "As a consequence of this deficiency, there is a sacrifice of the health and lives and material resources of many persons every year, a sacrifice which is needless because preventable, and preventable by measures readily within our means and demonstrated to be in the highest sense economical. The situation is practical and urgent. It should...
...limited personnel permits, Surgeon General Gumming is willing to send experts to study the health requirements of typical country districts and to demonstrate how local public health services can be operated. Want ads in the current journals of the American Public Health Association and of the American Medical Association indicate that men skilled in public health are willing to work for from $4,000 to $6,000 a year. A Montana community of 3,000 offers $600 a year for part-time work* and expects to get a capable...
Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico hastened to despatch the U. S. S. Grebe with a medical unit. For disease spread fast. One surgeon performed 50 amputations in a few hours. The U. S. Navy loaned the Red Cross three tri-motor Ford planes each to carry 1,500 pounds of medical supplies. Food and water was rushed from every direction, especially from inland valleys of the island which had escaped the storm. A sunken dredge and rushing torrents blocked Santo Domingo harbor; supplies were ferried ashore in ships' boats...