Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four-and-a-half days it advanced only 172 miles. On the Empress, George and Elizabeth invited all hands to movie shows of travel films and Walt Disney cartoons, got into a discussion over whether icebergs should be called "he" or "she." On Saturday His Majesty's Surgeon Captain Henry Ellis Yeo White and the Empress' Dr. Joseph Maxwell made an emergency trip to the Glasgow, took out the appendix of a seaman...
...executive, onetime president of Union Pacific (1920-37); of heart disease; in Washington. Mr. Gray's first job, in 1883, was swabbing spittoons in a backwoods railroad depot. In 1937 his wife, Harriette Flora Gray, was elected "Typical American Mother." Last September a son, Dr. Howard K. Gray, surgeon at the Mayo Clinic, operated on James Roosevelt for a stomach ulcer (TIME...
...successful surgeon with his own private practice is Professor Bertram Bernheim of Johns Hopkins. But he does not have much faith in the U. S. system of private medical care. He sees the public asking for more adequate, low-cost medical service, sees national health insurance coming, and he wants his colleagues to prepare for the future, lest laymen take over "the big business of medicine...
Surgery. Americans, says Dr. Bernheim, are "hellbent for surgery" because it is dramatic and thorough. Although there are hundreds of outstanding surgeons who never rush into an operation, "too much surgery is done." Reason: Surgery "is easy money-it comes quick and there's lots of it." While family physicians, who suggest operations, are paid very small fees, "the surgeon is the big shot-and big shots cop the coin." Too often the only money a physician gets from an operation is an unethical "cut" the surgeon hands him for bringing in a patient (fee-splitting...
...protect patients from greedy surgeons, Dr. Bernheim suggests a major operation: "cut out the surgeon-eliminate him entirely from private practice." All surgeons, he believes, should have their offices in hospitals and should receive salaries from hospitals. Patients should choose their hospitals, but leave the choice of their surgeon up to the chief of staff. This system is practiced in the "justly famous" Mayo Clinic. If it were put into general operation, says Dr. Bernheim, surgeons would become more highly specialized and hospitals would weed out inefficient men. Of course, "surgeons won't like it ... but men ought...