Word: surgeon
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English reporting has always been hospitable to murder, and Altick, who is a professor of literature at Ohio State University, has done his homework well. The indoor doing-in record was set by Surgeon William Palmer, who got away with no fewer than six and very possibly as many as 14 murders. He overextended himself with the deaths of his wife and brother shortly after he had procured insurance policies on them in his favor...
Memorial's Dr. Maurice Shils devised a fluid diet that could supply all the protein, vitamins, minerals and carbohydrates that the body needs. A surgeon installed a plastic shunt between an artery and vein in Mrs. Smith's leg. At home, three times a day, she connected this plastic tube to a bottle of Shils' super-soup. Each such "meal" took three hours...
...York woman psychiatrist has written as many as 75 letters a week, charging up to $250 each to certify men as emotionally unfit for military duties. Selective Service physicians now recognize and ignore her recommendations. Several authors of equally dubious letters have been reported to the U.S. Army Surgeon General, though it is questionable whether he has any authority to act against them. The Justice Department could prosecute such doctors for impeding the draft or making fraudulent statements to the Government, but proving the charges might be difficult. Local medical societies can also suspend an errant member, a crushing professional...
...insurance company has made a profit on malpractice coverage since 1958. Many have ceased writing liability policies for physicians. Those still in business have sharply raised their rates. The insurance group that formerly covered 11,000 Southern California physicians doubled its average premiums last year; thus a general surgeon who had been paying $1,508 for insurance was obliged to pay $3,140 for the same coverage. Last year surgeons in Utah were paying an average of $3,910, more than 13 times the $294 they paid...
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...