Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week, on its 175th birthday, the Medical Service of the U.S. Army was, in the words of Surgeon General Raymond W. Bliss, "in the most difficult place it has ever been in-Korea." Over the years, the Medical Service had grown mightily from a pipsqueak, penny-pinched outfit (five doctors for 20,000 men in 1775) into a veritable army of healers: 10,200 officers (doctors, dentists and nurses), some 25,000 enlisted Medical Corpsmen. But the nature of war and the hapless plight of the wounded, the agony of torn flesh and the superhuman burdens on the "medics...
...doctors and trained corpsmen. In a schoolhouse clearing station at Kwanni I saw doctors who worked the clock around for three days and three nights, resting on their feet with their eyes closed and heads against a wall for a few moments, while corpsmen moved one litter from the surgeon's bench and reached for another...
...could estimate just how many doctors would have to change their white coats for khaki shirts, or how soon, but last week the appeals for volunteers were going out. To 3,000 first lieutenants and captains in the Army Medical Corps Reserve, Surgeon General Raymond W. Bliss wrote: "We . . . have an immediate and distressing need for 354 physicians in the age and grade group which you represent. This . . . must be met and met promptly...
Died. Sir Herbert Atkinson Barker, 81, self-styled "manipulative surgeon" whose skill in repairing dislocated joints and stiff knees with his fingers brought him fame, fortune, knighthood and-after the orthodox had long spurned him as a degreeless bonesetter-professional recognition; in Lancaster, England...
...Surgeon Gary Grant, vacationing with his wife (Paula Raymond) in a Latin American country on the brink of revolution, suddenly finds himself a prisoner of the ailing dictator (well played by José Ferrer) who is dying of a brain tumor. While Dr. Grant ponders whether to operate, revolutionists urge him to let the scalpel slip, and Ferrer offers some glib justifications of dictatorship...