Your Doctors Today

Series

Series Name

The March of Time 12th Year

Issue

Issue No.

11

Date Released

1947

Length of issue (in feet)

1608

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Your Doctors Today

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

The March of Time synopsis: War, points out the film, was responsible for the mass production of such remarkable new medicines as the sulfa drugs, streptomycin and the British discovery penicillin, and it gave doctors the opportunity of wide experience with these preparations and new techniques. But it also slowed up medical progress generally, especially research and medical progress generally especially research and medical education for today there is not sufficient money to train enough researchers, while medical schools are faced with the problem of teaching thousands of students under crowded conditions.

"Your Doctors Today" discusses the work that is being done both in the U.S.A. and Great Britain on the problem of longevity. At Oxford, Dr. V. G. Korenchevsky investigates the possibility of lengthening life through isolating the causes of senility, while at Columbia University, Professor Henry C. Sherman is carrying on nutritional experiments which suggest that human lives may be lengthened by ten per cent.
The March of Time takes its audience into the famous New York Academy of Medicine, now celebrating its hundredth anniversary; into some of America’s great hospitals to show such modern miracles as a brain operation; the use of the revolutionary artificial kidney; an Rh transfusion performed on a baby; and the use of atomic isotypes in treating cancer of the thyroid. Illustrating the work of psychiatric treatment, the March of Time first shows the work being done at a rehabilitation centre in England - Roffey Park, whose Chairman of the Council is Lord Horder, long famous as a leader in medical welfare work. Endowed by progressive British industrialists, Roffey Park’s director, Dr. T. M. Ling, is a pioneer in industrial psychiatry, and here workers suffering from fatigue and personal maladjustments are provided with treatment that has enabled eighty-five per cent of the thousand patients a year to return to full-time employment. The work of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute is also shown, where specialists in mental disorders have helped to gain general medical acceptance of the much-debated theories of psychoanalysis - a long and difficult process of reconstructing from fragmentary recollections a picture that will enable the patient to understand and deal with his troubles realistically. For a major trend in medicine today, the film points out, is the growing acceptance by doctors of the idea that body and mind are interdependent and should not be treated separately.

Researcher Comments

This story was included in Vol.13 No.11 of the US edition.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Science and technology

Written sources

The March of Time Promotional Material   Lobby Card, Used for synopsis

Credits:

Production Co.

Time Inc.