Personal physician

The cholera epidemic that reached Europe and North America in the early 1830s killed more than 20,000 people in England. It was during this epidemic that Queen Victoria s personal physician, Dr. John Snow, removed the handle from the polluted Broad Street pump in London in the first recorded, appropriate measure to prevent waterborne disease. 

Methamphetamine was widely used by soldiers in World War II because its potent stimulant effects kept them awake and alert for longer periods of time and increased their physical endurance. One infamous user of methamphetamine during wartime was one of the most evil men of the twentieth century—Adolf Hitler. Hitler started receiving daily injections of methamphetamine from his personal physician Dr. T. Morrell in 1942, and it was reported he could not function without his daily doses. Hitler also took many other drugs (perhaps over two dozen), including Cola-Dalmann tablets that contained caffeine. Hitler also dispensed methamphetamine to his troops so they could fight for days on end without sleep or food and outlast the endurance of enemy troops. 

Where Phase II, III and IV studies are conducted in a hospital or contract research environment, it is strongly advisable to inform the subject s general practitioner (GP) in writing of the nature of the study and to obtain the GP s agreement, preferably in writing. This is essential for Phase 1 studies in non-patient volunteers, and it is routine practice in all Phase 1 clinical pharmacology units. However, increasingly, particularly in mainland Europe, study subjects will be found not to have a personal physician or, if they have, that their last visit to the physician could be a considerable time ago. 

The patient should immediately contact his or her personal physician... 

Michael Jackson, one of the world s most popular singers and performers, who died in 2009 from misuse of a powerful anesthetic to help him sleep. Jackson had a history of abuse of prescription painkillers, caused initially by injuries sustained during a rehearsal accident that set his hair on fire. The inappropriate use of propofol, the drug that killed him, has led authorities to charge Jackson s personal physician with manslaughter. 

My master sighed testily. In a murder case You know that you are talking rubbish. What was the name of the deceased s personal physician ... 

Dr. Francisco Hernandez, King Philip II s personal physician, gave the first physical description of the cactus plant. Along with describing its psychoactive qualities, he also wrote about its medicinal uses, namely, to relive painful joints. 

Clinical trials examine the safety and efficacy of interventions, or treatments, in human subjects. This book focuses on pharmaceutical clinical trials. The word subject is used deliberately here, since all participants in clinical trials are subjects, even if they are under the care of a personal physician, and therefore patients in that context, at the time of the trial. The key difference between clinical care and clinical research is that clinical research is conducted for the general good of the population at large, not for the specific individual benefit of the participants in the study, while clinical care is concerned with the specific well-being of each individual patient. 

The first important clues appear in sixteenth-century manuscripts written by Spaniards. The Friar Bernardino de Sahagdn, who spent most of his adult life in Mexico, and Dr. Francisco Hernandez, the personal physician to the King of Spain, both clearly described "mushrooms used as psychoactive agents in tribal rites in post-Conquest Mexico. An educated Indian named Tezozdmoc wrote in 1598 about the ingestion of "inebriating mushrooms by celebrants at the coronation of Montezuma II. 

Although the scientific method as we now know it was beginning to get a firm foothold on the European intelligentsia, this period also sees what is perhaps the most celebrated (after the Flamels), and certainly most detailed, account of a transmutation. It was published in 1667 by the great Swiss doctor John Frederick Helvetius, personal physician to the Prince of Orange, and one of the leading names in the medicine of the time. 

He can t, I said. I am apprenticed to a sage, clairvoyant, alchemist, astrologer, and all-round philosopher, who also happens to be personal physician to the doge. If I ever need a degree in medicine, I shall go over to Padua and foresee all the answers in the finals before the professors have thought of the questions. I stalked across to the medical cupboard. Plaster, master ... 

I settled down to starve. Nothing of importance would be discussed until the Barbolanos were dismissed and possibly not even then, because the purpose of the gathering was merely to demonstrate to Ottone Gritti that theSignoria was not in favor of combusting the doge s personal physician. 

Under the week s itinerary are two numbers representing money and health. At the beginning of each week, your treasurer tells you how much money you have, up to a maximum of 25 million. Your personal physician figures out how healthy you are. At most you ll have 255 health points. 

Duke Johann Friedrich of Brunswick-Liineburg-Hanover wanted Brand to be his personal physician and alchemist at the court in Hanover. He hoped that Brand s universal medicine would allow him to drive out the devil and find large amounts of gold and silver in the Harz mountains. 

Specific medical information or recommendations are not available through the Foundation and must be provided by your personal physician. Address any correspondence to ... 

Some investigators and sponsors provide specific checklists for a clinical trial, which they claim are an alternative to the medical records. Information relating to medical history will be copied from the permanent records onto these checklists and most of the key parameters required to be recorded in the CRF will also be present on these checklists. However, monitors, QA auditors and inspectors need to see all the medical records available to the investigator. Some investigator sites, in particular those in outpatient departments, have no available medical records for individual subjects. The study subject may have not have a personal physician. In this situation, the subject may be the only person to provide any information about his/her medical history. 

The screening of images stored on their chips can provide a baseline making possible the detecting of disease at the earliest possible time. Abnormal manifestations of disease will be identified, and then personal physicians will interpret the abnormal findings, and provide medical advice and treatment. 

Three of the occupants working for my client have been to the ER, or personal Physician. All of these individuals are complaining of tightening of chest, chest pains and shortening of breath. The Periodontal Doctor visited the ER over a year ago with the same symptoms. The recent occurrence are all within the last few weeks. Further, there are two additional occupants in the office space on the... 

In 1511, the first tobacco plants reached Spain. In the middle of the 16th century, Francisco Hernandez de Toledo, personal physician to Philip 11, and Andre Thevet, a Franciscan monk who converted to Calvinism, cultivated Ma-pacho Nicotiana rustica) as an ornamental plant. In 1560, the French Envoy to Portugal, Jean Nicot de VOemain (Fig. 5.200) sent tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum) to Catherine de Medici in Paris. 

Pregnant women concerned about working in the laboratory should always consult their personal physician to decide if working in the laboratory is safe for the baby. 

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